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1.81
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Monitor applications
Application Observability (Classic)
Release notes
1.81Grafana Cloud
Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.81
1.81.0
Released on 2026-08-12.
- Added services, issues, active filters, and suggested questions to Grafana Assistant context
- Moved Tempo metrics generation configuration to the Observability configuration page
- Fixed peer service links and instrumentation detection for services without a namespace in the job label
1.81.1
Released on 2026-08-13.
- Fixed runtime tab panels (Go, JVM, Node.js, .NET, and Process metrics) being stuck in a loading state forever, which also prevented the quality report from calculating the instrumentation score
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