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title: "Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.61 | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.61"
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# Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.61

## 1.61.0

Released on 2025-09-02.

- Improve support for special characters in service name and namespace
- Fix exclusion of health checks from metrics generation
- Improve service metadata fetch to avoid timeouts from high cardinality labels
- Fix default limit of time series in charts to prevent browser memory issues
- Add support for snake case `trace_id` in exemplar links