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1.51
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Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.51
1.51.0
Released on 2025-03-18.
- Add profiles check to the service quality report
- No longer add configured filter by / group by attributes to filter by / group by dropdown menus if the respective metric labels do not exist in the data
- Fix the Frontend Observability icon sometimes not appearing in the service list for frontend applications
1.51.1
Released on 2025-03-20.
- Remove mention of the OpenTelemetry Collector in notification when user is using Grafana Cloud metrics generation
- Update the host hours check to query for the last 24h instead of the last 30m
1.51.2
Released on 2025-03-21.
- Improve the query used for checking host hours
- Give precedence to the trial check when checking for host hours
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