Getting Started with Grafana Cloud's AI Assistant for Observability

The pace of software delivery in 2025 is unprecedented — cloud-native apps, microservices, and AI-generated code are shipping in days, not months. But one challenge never changes: ensuring reliability and visibility when systems fail. In this video, we explore how the new Grafana AI Assistant brings true, context-aware observability to your stack. Watch as we deploy an open-source Python service with Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes, and Prometheus then use the AI assistant to instantly generate dashboards, alerts, and reduce un-needed telemetry volume.

AI in observability at Grafana Labs: Making observability easy and accessible for everyone

Did you know that observability has been around for more than six decades? It all goes back to a Hungarian-American inventor named Rudolf Kálmán who thought about how external outputs could measure the internal state of a machine. Kálmán wrote about monitoring single-input single-output systems, but our demands are very different today. We need to observe monoliths, microservices, clusters, pods, regions, and many more.

AI for Grafana onboarding: Get your teams started quicker with Grafana Assistant

Grafana puts a powerful set of observability capabilities right at your fingertips, but onboarding entire teams to the sophisticated platform is often a nontrivial exercise—one that can slow adoption and prevent organizations from getting immediate value. We want to make the process as frictionless as possible, which is why we’re excited to tell you that Grafana Assistant is now available in public preview to all Grafana Cloud users.

LLM-powered insights into your tracing data: introducing MCP support in Grafana Cloud Traces

Distributed tracing data is a unique and powerful observability signal, allowing you to understand how your services interact and the relationships between them. Sometimes it can be difficult, however, to turn raw tracing data into actionable insights. This is exactly why we introduced Grafana Traces Drilldown, an application that lets you quickly investigate and visualize your tracing data through a simplified, queryless experience.

Observability trends in Brazil: insights from our localized survey

Organizations in Brazil are eager to adopt some of the latest observability trends and technologies as they look to keep their software running as smoothly as possible, according to analysis of a micro survey recently conducted by Grafana Labs. Observability is an evolving space, and this is the first time Grafana Labs has run a Brazilian version of our annual Observability Survey.

Grafana Pyroscope: New eBPF profiler in Alloy & Source Code Integration (Community Call August 2025)

Christian is going to talk about the new eBPF profiler in Grafana Alloy as well as new Grafana Pyroscope Source Code Integration UI updates. Have questions? Please bring them! Can't comment in the chat? You may need to create a channel. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

Grafana Tempo: Performance Moonshots & MCP Server (Community Call August 2025)

We'll have Marty talking about Grafana Tempo Performance Moonshots and Joe will update us with what's new with the MCP Server! Have questions? Please bring them! Can't comment in the chat? You may need to create a channel. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

Learn OpenTelemetry tracing through a grand strategy game: introducing Game of Traces

A trace always remembers! Okay, okay. I will try to keep my Game of Thrones references to a minimum throughout this post, but there is a lot of truth to that statement. In observability, a trace is the “when” and “where” of telemetry signals, allowing us to track the state of interactions between services within a microservice architecture. This makes traces the ideal observability signal for discovering bottlenecks and interconnection issues.

How to use SQL to learn more about your Grafana usage

Wilfried Roset is an engineering manager who leads an SRE team, and he is also a Grafana Champion. Wilfried currently works at OVHcloud, where he focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customers satisfaction. Grafana needs a database to store all its objects, such as users, dashboards, or even data sources. Each time a user creates a dashboard, it results in a new row created in the database.