Grafana Cloud

Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.76

1.76.0

Released on 2026-06-03.

  • Added a duration distribution heatmap as the default visualization with a toggle to switch to bar chart
  • Added info icon descriptions to panel headers across runtime and RED metric panels
  • Added native histograms as the default for new stack activations
  • Flagged uninstrumented peers in the outbound service table
  • Fixed duration metric for uninstrumented (virtual_node) services to use client-side seconds
  • Fixed operation names containing ?, &, or = from breaking navigation
  • Updated the “Connect” data link to point to the OTel setup guide