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title: "Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.81 | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.81"
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# 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