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