Overview of AI Evaluation (The Context Window #05)

Can you actually trust an AI agent? In this pre-recorded episode of The Context Window, Nicole van der Hoeven sits down with Yas Ekinci, an engineer on the Grafana AI team, to talk about evals — how Grafana measures the quality and reliability of the AI it ships. They get into the difference between online and offline evals, why reviewing AI-generated code has become the real bottleneck, the "final answer problem" of plausible-but-wrong outputs, and o11y-bench, Grafana's open benchmark for observability agents. Along the way.

How Grafana Cloud Ingests Your Data | Data Sources, Alloy & OTel Explained

Learn the two main ways to get data into Grafana Cloud. In this video, we break down how Grafana Cloud connects to over 150 external data sources (like Salesforce, Postgres, and CloudWatch) where your data stays in place, and how you can send raw telemetry into Grafana’s fully managed databases for logs, metrics, traces, and profiles.

Grafana 13.1 release: observability as code updates, extending Grafana Assistant across more data sources, and more

Earlier this year, Grafana 13 laid the groundwork for making it easier and faster than ever to turn your data into actionable insights. With our latest minor release, Grafana 13.1, we're building on that foundation, expanding observability as code, bringing Grafana Assistant to more data sources, and streamlining the everyday workflows teams rely on to visualize, analyze, and act on their data. Download Grafana 13.1 Below are just some of the highlights from Grafana 13.1.

Vendor Outage Monitoring for MSPs: Per-Client Status Pages and Custom Dashboards

Handling client calls when a third-party vendor has an outage - this will sound familiar if you are a managed service provider (MSP). Your first instinct would be to check if the vendor's status page or social media handle shows anything, or check crowdsourced websites like Downdetector. Or even ask your client to check themselves. These approaches do not scale when you have more than a few clients, many vendor status pages to check, and clients with different stacks.

Observability for a Privacy-first AI Wearable | Grafana Everywhere

Trust is everything when AI gets personal. Golden Grot Award winner and NeoSapien co-founder and CEO Dhananjay Yadav shares how his team uses Grafana Assistant to ensure the privacy-first AI wearable delivers a seamless, reliable experience without compromising its mission. Because when AI moves closer to our everyday lives, teams need to know what’s happening — and users need to trust that it’s working as intended.

Inside the AI Team Weekly: AI Observability workflows and Prometheus exemplars (May 19th, 2026)

The Grafana AI team (Engineers Ivana Huckova and Sonia Aguilar) share what's new in AI Observability this week: a new way to instrument and visualize agent workflows, plus a neat trick for jumping straight from a metric spike to the exact conversation that caused it using Prometheus exemplars. In this episode: We're showing parts of our team meetings to build in public in some small way and give you a sneak preview of what's to come. But not all features we show may make it to production! You've been warned. :)

Analysing Claude Code telemetry with SquaredUp - diving deeper

In our previous article we looked at the basics of: In this article, we are going to take a deeper dive into some of the complexities of configuration as well as some of the nuances of analysing Claude telemetry. Before we dive into the code, let us just remind ourselves that our telemetry pipeline looks like this: That is, we are emitting Claude Code telemetry to an OpenTelemetry Collector. The telemetry is then exported to an Application Insights endpoint and stored in Log Analytics tables.

How to use Postman Visualizer: a step-by-step guide

API responses are often easier to understand when they are displayed visually instead of as raw JSON. While Postman is widely used for testing APIs, many developers overlook one of its most useful features which is the Postman Visualizer. While it is not as fully featured as a dedicated dashboarding platform like SquaredUp, it is a great way to quickly visualize API responses during development and debugging.

Visualising Claude Code telemetry in SquaredUp

Engineering teams are shipping more AI-generated code than ever, but at what cost? Learn how to build a telemetry pipeline to monitor Claude Code usage and costs directly in SquaredUp. It is estimated that 85-90% of engineering teams are now using AI coding assistants such as Claude, Codex and Cursor. This is not just for small-scale pilot projects— around 40% of all code now being shipped is AI-generated, and in start-ups the figure is around 95%. This can result in incredible productivity gains.