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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