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title: "Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.70 | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.70"
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# Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.70

## 1.70.0

Released on 2026-01-08.

### Enhancements

- Added support for configuring custom `span_id` and `trace_id` labels when linking traces to logs

### Fixes

- Fixed an issue where deactivating Application Observability did not stop metrics generation