What Grafana shipped in July 2026

Reflections on AI Week, and the future of solving problems with observability and AI

Grafana Labs concluded AI Week by highlighting new AI-driven observability tools now generally available, including agentic operations and automated dashboard migrations via MCP. The company emphasize…

Grafana Metrics Drilldown

Grafana Assistant desktop app enters private preview

Grafana Labs launched a private preview of the Grafana Assistant desktop app, enabling local file system, code, and tool integration alongside Grafana Cloud data. Users can manage alerts, incidents, d…

Grafana Labs launches Assistant Search for natural-language artifact discovery

Grafana Labs introduced Assistant Search in Grafana Cloud, enabling users to find dashboards, alerts, incidents, and other artifacts by describing them in plain language rather than relying on exact n…

Grafana launches open-source AI SDK for building Go agents

Grafana Labs open-sourced its AI SDK, enabling developers to build custom agents in Go with support for multiple LLM providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, and OpenAI-compatible endpoi…

Grafana Assistant expands to Microsoft Teams in Private Preview

Grafana Labs announced the Private Preview of Grafana Assistant for Microsoft Teams, extending its AI-driven support and data access capabilities beyond Slack. Users can query Grafana Cloud data, trou…

Grafana Assistant now in public preview on Grafana Mobile app

Grafana Labs rebranded its IRM mobile app to Grafana Mobile and integrated Grafana Assistant into it, enabling users to respond to alerts, chat in plain language, and verify dashboards directly from t…

How to build a trust platform for your agent with Grafana Agent Observability

Grafana Labs released Agent Observability to help teams monitor, test, and debug agentic workloads, addressing challenges faced during the scaling of their own Grafana Assistant. The tool provides ins…

Grafana Labs launches Agent Observability in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs announced the general availability of Agent Observability in Grafana Cloud, introducing a fifth telemetry signal—agent sessions—to track agent reasoning, tool calls, and performance. The …

Grafana Cloud Database Configuration app replaces self-service API in public preview

Grafana Labs is deprecating the logs self-service configuration API, previously available to all Grafana Cloud Logs users, and replacing it with the Grafana Database Configuration app. The new app wil…

Grafana Cloud adds live Cloud Provider home page for faster triage

Grafana Cloud’s Cloud Provider Observability home page now provides a live summary of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) instead of static content. Users can triage alerts, error trends, and resourc…

Automate all the things: How to use Grafana Cloud's AI to relieve the operational burden

Grafana Cloud introduced AI-driven automation tools—Automations, Watchers, and Investigations—to reduce manual operational work in CI/CD pipelines. Automations generate recurring briefs on operational…

Pricing change detected for Grafana

Pricing updated for Grafana: - Free: added annual billing at $0/mo - Pro (Metrics): added annual billing at $5.42/mo - Pro (Metrics): allowance changed from 10k active series/month to 10k active serie…

Grafana Assistant

Grafana introduced Grafana Assistant, an AI-driven observability agent integrated into Grafana Cloud that enables users to query metrics, logs, traces, and profiles using natural language. The tool si…

Pricing updated for Grafana: - Pro (Metrics): allowance changed from 10k active series/month (then pay as you go) to 10k active series/month - Pro (Logs): $0.05/mo → $0.050/mo (0% decrease) - Pro (Log

Grafana saved queries GA with command palette and Terraform support

Grafana Labs announced general availability of saved queries in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud, introducing command palette access for faster discovery and Terraform provisioning for infrastruct…

Grafana Cloud docs restructure AI capabilities into dedicated section

Grafana Labs launched a new documentation architecture for Grafana Cloud, grouping content into four sections including a dedicated 'AI tools' area for infrastructure-level AI features like MCP server…

Grafana SLOs gain maintenance windows to pause error budget consumption

Grafana Labs introduced maintenance windows for SLOs, allowing teams to schedule planned work without consuming error budgets or triggering burn rate alerts. The feature pauses SLO tracking during act…

Grafana introduces Assistant Watchers for agentic alerting in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs launched Assistant Watchers, an agentic alerting feature in Grafana Cloud that detects deviations from expected system health without requiring explicit rule definitions. Watchers continu…

Grafana Assistant Investigations now GA in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs announced the general availability of Assistant Investigations in Grafana Cloud, an AI-driven feature that automates deep incident investigations by analyzing metrics, logs, traces, and p…

Grafana Assistant Automations now GA in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs released Assistant Automations in Grafana Cloud, enabling users to schedule recurring tasks like morning digests or health checks via saved prompts. Each automation run generates a dedica…

Grafana Cloud blocks installation of plugins deprecated over 6 months

Grafana Cloud no longer allows installation of plugins deprecated for more than 6 months, aiming to reduce outdated components. Existing installations remain unaffected, and users are directed to Graf…

Telemetry-driven development: How to gain confidence in your coding agents' behavior with gcx and Grafana MCP

Grafana introduced gcx (Cloud CLI) and the Grafana MCP server, now generally available, to connect coding agents to Grafana telemetry. These tools enable agents to access real-time system behavior dat…

Grafana introduced gcx (Cloud CLI) and the Grafana MCP server as generally available tools to connect AI coding agents to Grafana’s telemetry and observability data. These tools enable agents to acces

Grafana Assistant now offers OpenAI-powered private preview

Grafana Labs introduced a private preview of Grafana Assistant powered by OpenAI models, expanding beyond its existing Anthropic-based backend. Users can now route Assistant requests to OpenAI models …

Grafana launches Cloud MCP server for zero-infrastructure AI agent access

Grafana Labs introduced a fully managed Cloud MCP server that lets AI agents connect to Grafana Cloud via a single URL, eliminating infrastructure overhead. Unlike the OSS MCP server, this version req…

Grafana adds Index Picker to OpenSearch data source for easier index selection

Grafana Labs introduced an Index Picker feature in its OpenSearch plugin, replacing manual index name entry with a searchable browser. The tool displays document counts and cluster health, supports su…

Grafana launches gcx CLI for AI agents and terminal access

Grafana Labs announced the general availability of gcx, a new CLI tool for Grafana Cloud and Grafana OSS/Enterprise v12+, designed to provide structured terminal access for both users and AI agents. I…

Explore what's next in agentic operations: Introducing AI Week

Grafana introduced AI Week to showcase new AI-driven observability tools in Grafana Cloud, including generally available features like Assistant Workspace, gcx CLI, Assistant Investigations, Automatio…

Grafana Profiles Drilldown

Grafana Labs introduced Grafana Profiles Drilldown, a native application that integrates with Pyroscope to provide a query-less experience for browsing and analyzing continuous profiling data. The app…

How to monitor your Supabase projects: connect Grafana Cloud in one click

Grafana Labs and Supabase introduced a one-click integration enabling Supabase users to activate Grafana Cloud directly from the Supabase Dashboard. The integration provides out-of-the-box dashboards …

Mastering OpenTelemetry instrumentation and Grafana

Grafana held a webinar on July 22, 2026, focused on advanced OpenTelemetry code-based instrumentation and its integration with Grafana Cloud Application Observability. The session covered best practic…

Cost attribution in Grafana Cloud: Manage spend across observability and testing workflows

Grafana Cloud extended its cost attribution feature to Synthetic Monitoring and performance testing with k6, enabling teams to allocate spend across observability and testing workflows using label-bas…

How to monitor AI agents in production with Grafana AI Observability (Middle East Timezone)

Grafana held a webinar on July 21, 2026, demonstrating how Grafana AI Observability monitors AI agents in production by tracing workflows, tracking token costs, and running online evaluations for qual…

Beyond performance monitoring: Understand the user experience with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability introduces user action tracking to monitor critical workflows like checkout steps, a geolocation feature to identify regional issues, and a redesigned errors view …

Grafana Logs Drilldown

Grafana Labs introduced the Logs Drilldown app, enabling users to browse Loki logs without writing queries by leveraging volume and text patterns. The app requires Grafana 11.6.0+ and Loki 3.2+ and is…

ObservabilityCON 2026: Register today and preview this year's agenda

Grafana Labs opened registration for its flagship observability conference, ObservabilityCON 2026, scheduled for October 19–21 at Pier 27 in San Francisco. The event features hands-on workshops, techn…

Grafana Labs named a Leader again in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Microsoft Teams Observability

Grafana launched a Microsoft Teams Observability plugin (v1.2.1) that provides pre-built dashboards to monitor Teams call quality, user activity, service health, and network performance directly withi…

Stop switching tools to find answers: Grafana Assistant now works across 30+ data sources

Grafana Labs extended its Grafana Assistant AI tool to query over 30 data sources—including observability platforms (New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace), databases (MongoDB, Oracle, Snowflake), and Jira—ena…

Building an end-to-end reliability testing strategy with Grafana Cloud

Grafana introduced a layered reliability testing strategy combining Synthetic Monitoring, Frontend Observability, and k6 to proactively detect, analyze, and validate application performance before and…

GrafanaCON Local Meetups

Grafana is hosting GrafanaCON Local meetups globally to recap key GrafanaCON announcements in a two-hour community setting. Events were held across Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific from May 26 to Ju…

Upcoming events

Grafana’s event catalog highlights upcoming ObservabilityCON 2026, regional ObservabilityCON on the Road events, and multiple free hands-on workshops covering metrics, logging, Kubernetes, OpenTelemet…

'Grafana's Big Tent' podcast: Anthropic on agentic coding, observability, and the future of software engineering

Grafana Labs’ podcast featured Anthropic’s Eric Burns discussing why Anthropic prioritized multi-cloud model availability, the shift to natural language as a UI for dashboards, and the rapid adoption …

Business intelligence plugins for Grafana: A support update

Grafana Labs extended its maintenance commitment for Volkov Labs' BI plugins through December 2026, following their acquisition in September 2025. The update includes continued compatibility with Graf…

How to get started with OpenTelemetry and Grafana (APAC Timezone)

Grafana Labs is hosting a webinar on July 8, 2026, focused on OpenTelemetry instrumentation and visualization using the Grafana ecosystem (Loki, Tempo, Mimir, and Grafana Cloud Application Observabili…

Grafana adds multi-select grouping for dashboards

Grafana Labs introduced multi-select grouping in edit mode, allowing users to select multiple panels and instantly group them into rows or tabs. This speeds up dashboard reorganization without manual …

How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Assistant everywhere: Customize and connect to the AI agent to fit your specific needs

Grafana Assistant, its LLM-based observability agent, is now available to Grafana Enterprise and OSS users via a one-click setup tied to a Grafana Cloud account, extending beyond cloud-only access. Ne…

Pricing updated for Grafana: - New tier: Free ($0/mo) - New tier: Pro (Metrics) ($6.50/mo per 1k series ($5.42/mo annually, 20% off)) - New tier: Pro (Logs) ($0.05/mo per GB ($0.04/mo annually, 20% of

Grafana Traces Drilldown