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title: "Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.72 | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.72"
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# Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.72

## 1.72.0

Released on 2026-03-12.

- Added a configuration option to set the span multiplier key for Grafana Cloud Traces metrics generation
- Prevented navigation to a missing service from hanging in a loading state
- Applied the Beyla skip metrics generation setting to Service Graph metrics generation