😮‍💨 When something breaks, you want the dashboards, context, and the necessary workflows already there. Bake observability in from day one using Grafana Assistant. Here's how from Sven Großmann.

Smarter onboarding and planning with Grafana Assistant: How to ensure observability is baked in from the start | Grafana Labs

Stop bolting on observability at the end. Observability belongs at every stage of building and running software, and with our AI assistant, you can make sure it's there from the start.

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Bookmark this. 🔖 This post contains prompts for you to use in Grafana Assistant. Check out the thread and copy + paste into Assistant.

@tomwilkie.bsky.social from @grafana.bsky.social talks to Ryan Worl about how @warpstream.com helped when they were developing Adaptive Metrics 👉 buff.ly/gTMahnu. Also, check out the case study about how @warpstream.com powers Mimir: buff.ly/tcy28HW

We're building a better search experience in Grafana Assistant. See how we're designing Assistant Search to pull in the right context for your specific needs. https://medium.com/grafana-labs/search-but-deeper-how-grafana-assistant-finds-the-right-context-c3a1e27beea5

Search, but deeper: how Grafana Assistant finds the right context

Grafana Assistant is only as good as the context it can reach. Here’s the memory that lets it search your dashboards, alerts, incidents…

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AI agents use CLIs differently than people do. Learn how we built gcx, a CLI designed for AI agents to work with Grafana, and the engineering decisions that make agentic workflows more reliable and efficient. https://medium.com/grafana-labs/clis-in-the-age-of-agents-how-we-designed-gcx-cdfca8954b30

gcx brings Grafana Cloud and Grafana Assistant directly into your terminal — and to the agentic coding environment running inside it. Spot and resolve incidents in minutes instead of hours. gcx is built to do the heavy lifting. Learn more.

Get observability in the terminal, for you and your agents, with the gcx CLI tool | Grafana Labs

gcx, currently in public preview, brings Grafana Cloud and Grafana Assistant directly into your terminal—and to the agentic coding environment running inside it—so you can spot and resolve incidents i...

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Game on! 🎮 Gaming platform CTW automated full-stack observability for every new game in seconds using Grafana Cloud — turning monitoring into a self-service platform for internal teams and studios. https://grafana.com/success/ctw/?mdm=social&src=bs

We close AI Week with a focus on collaboration and accessing Assistant from anywhere. Join the conversation on Reddit: https://bit.ly/3Rsftge Read about all this week's announcements: https://bit.ly/3RsftwK Learn more about AI in Grafana Cloud: grafana.ai

Building agents is easy; trusting them is hard. Look back at Day 4 of AI Week, where we focused on trust and implementation, and the GA release of Agent Observability. Go to grafana.ai to learn more.

Gain confidence in the performance of your agents with Agent Observability, and see what we're doing to earn your trust with our AI tools. Read more: https://bit.ly/3RqgN3c Watch a demo: https://bit.ly/4x57AfE Learn more about AI in Grafana Cloud: grafana.ai

Day 3 for AI Week focused on taking the operational load off your plate, with new features to help you investigate incidents faster and automate routine maintenance tasks. Check out the recap below, and go to grafana.ai for all of today's updates.

Add AI and still stay in control with Assistant Investigations (GA), Assistant Automations (GA), and Assistant Watchers (public preview). Read more: https://bit.ly/3Tp8mFP Watch a demo: https://bit.ly/4wA17d0 Learn more about AI in Grafana Cloud: grafana.ai

Day 2 of AI Week at Grafana Labs was all about building and instrumentation. Check out our recap of all the news, and go to grafana.ai to learn more.

Gain confidence in your code and agents by using the gcx CLI tool and the Grafana MCP server, both of which are now generally available! Read more: https://bit.ly/3Tp8mFP Watch a demo: https://bit.ly/4fyOg3i Learn more about AI in Grafana Cloud: grafana.ai

Grafana Cloud's source IP allowlists are moving to a single, structured JSON API. Here's everything you need to know about the change and next steps. https://grafana.com/blog/a-new-allowlists-design-for-grafana-cloud-ip-addresses-what-you-need-to-know/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs

A new allowlists design for Grafana Cloud IP addresses: What you need to know | Grafana Labs

Grafana Cloud's source IP allowlists are moving to a single, structured JSON API. Here's what's changing, why, and what you need to do.

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Supabase + Grafana Cloud now connect in one click—a dashboard, metrics, and no scrape jobs to configure. https://grafana.com/blog/grafana-cloud-supabase-one-click-integration/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs

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

A streamlined integration for Grafana Cloud and Supabase gives you deep visibility into performance, system health, and database metrics with no complex setup required.

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Woo hoo! Grafana Assistant can now query across 30+ data sources — AppDynamics, Snowflake, Honeycomb, New Relic, and more — in a single investigation, without tab-switching.

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

Assistant can query and read your data using natural language, correlate signals across more than 30 sources in a single investigation, and visualize results directly as Grafana dashboards.

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🇯🇵 See you at #KubeCon Japan soon! If you're headed there too, find us at booth S7. Come and pick up swag, get your Kubernetes monitoring and agentic observability questions answered. We've also got a few sessions on the schedule. Check out our page to learn more. See you in Yokohama!

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Grafana Labs at KubeCon Japan 2026 July 29-30, Yokohama | PACIFICO Yokohama

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🚗 #ObservabilityCON on the Road is heading to cities around the world. Early bird registration is open! Save 30% for a limited time. Preview AI-powered solutions, deepen your observability expertise, and drive bigger business impact. 🔗: https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon-on-the-road/

Synthetic Monitoring + Frontend Observability + k6: how three Grafana Cloud tools layer together to catch failures before users do.

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

Learn how Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, Frontend Observability, and k6 work together to create a layered reliability testing strategy that catches issues early, surfaces real user impact, and va...

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Managing access for hundreds of users across internal teams and external contractors in Grafana Cloud? This post covers the layered model that makes it scale.

How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs

Learn how to use a layered access model that allows organizations to onboard large numbers of users, both internal and external, without sacrificing control.

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Major reveals are coming. July 27–31.

#ObservabilityCON 2026 registration is open! 🐦 Early birds, save 50% on your ticket. Highlights: 🤖 Live demos of Grafana Cloud's latest agentic tools & workflows 💬 1:1 time with our engineers 🏆 Success stories Space is limited. Reserve your spot: https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon/2026/

📣 Grafana Labs is a 3x Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms! This is our 2nd year in a row placing furthest in Completeness of Vision. See the ungated report: https://grafana.com/analyst-reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-observability-platforms

📺 #GrafanaEverywhere... even your favorite reality TV show! @simonprickett.dev built a Grafana dashboard to track The Traitors UK S4 using SQL expressions and a Google Sheet — joining vote data across sources.

Tracking “The Traitors” TV show with SQL expressions in Grafana

How I turned a reality TV obsession into a hands-on tour of SQL expressions in Grafana: joining data across sources, storytelling with…

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🍿 Grab the popcorn and join Eric Burns from @anthropic.com on the Big Tent podcast! Here's what he, @matryer.bsky.social & @tomwilkie.bsky.social - Why Anthropic bet early on running across every major cloud - How agentic coding tools changed how software is built at Grafana Labs

The AI Software Engineering Revolution, feat. Anthropic | Big Tent S3E9

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In January, we announced that Grafana Labs had assumed maintenance of the business intelligence plugins created by Volkov Labs, and committed to a six-month maintenance period. Today, we’re sharing an update: we're extending our maintenance commitment through the end of 2026.

Business intelligence plugins for Grafana: A support update | Grafana Labs

We're extending maintenance for Grafana BI plugins through the end of 2026. Here's what we've learned from the community and what you can expect for support going forward.

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🌍 Earth, in many ways, is a system. So what happens when you apply SRE thinking — health score, load, latency — to Earth itself? This exceptional dashboard.

Planet under load: What happens when you apply SRE thinking to Earth itself

By creating this Golden Grot Award finalist, I learned ambition is rarely a constraint when building Grafana dashboards.

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Click a dashboard panel, trigger a CLI command — no terminal required. Ruben Fernandez, 2x Golden Grot Award winner and a Dell SRE shows how to wire Grafana Cloud canvas actions to a backend API endpoint.

How to run remote commands from Grafana dashboards

Learn how to trigger remote CLI commands from Grafana dashboards using canvas panel actions and a simple API endpoint.

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Your voice helps the Grafana community! 🗣️ Speak at one of our meetups — whether it's a lightning talk or a deep dive — and score an exclusive free t-shirt! Submit your talk, take the stage, and receive your tee. Limit one per speaker: https://grafana.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4OQ9dzUAbSHfrAG