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1.76
Grafana Cloud
Observe and act
Monitor applications
Application Observability (Classic)
Release notes
1.76Grafana 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
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