Hello, Hola, Ciao, Hej, Hallo, Witam, مرحباً بكم ,درود, שלום everyone! 
Here are some of the works of the mighty Observability Core team from weeks 16 and 17 of 2026, corresponding to pulse 8.
The Team
As always, a quick reminder on our team members! On the Core team we have:
Together with the Tracing and Profiling and Service Mesh teams, we combine to create the greater Observability team, managed by Simme.
The Work
A looot of improvements made in our documentation! Thanks @yanisa-hs!!! 
- Added deprecation notices for Karma charms: here, and here
Fix: Error in Loki charm when upgrading- Fix: No metric normalization in prometheus components
- Fix: snaps not updated on charm refresh due to wrong hook name
Bumped Mimir to workload version 2.17.10- Bumped to
prometheusworkload version 3.11.1 - Bumped
lokito workload version Loki 3.7.1 - Feature: Toggle ingress for TF products
- Feature: Opentelemetry collector k8s istio-ingress endpoint added
Feedback welcome
As always, feedback is very welcome! Feel free to let us know your thoughts, questions, or suggestions either here or on our Matrix channel .
That’s all for this time! See you again in two weeks! 