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In the June edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 4.1 release, the upcoming 4.2 feature release, and we discuss the deprecation of the 1.x and 2.0 versions.

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.

Grafana 13.1 cuts down on GitOps pain by making Git Sync stronger — import dashboards to Git with a click, see your repo READMEs inside Grafana, and sign every commit for security-strict teams.

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.

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.

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. :)

Our distributed tracing journey from the inception of Tempo to 3.0. 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, traces, and profiles.

Want to try Grafana without installing anything? Jump into Grafana Play, our free sandbox environment where you can explore dashboards, experiment with features, and see Grafana in action, no login or setup required.

Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are missing one — and when it comes to testing and observing AI, Nicole van der Hoeven argues that missing rule changes everything: before a robot can avoid harm, obey orders, or protect itself, there has to be a Zeroth Law: a robot must be observable. Because if you can't see what a system is doing, you have no way of knowing whether it's following any rule at all.

The 2026 Observability Survey from Grafana Labs heard from over 1,300 engineers and leaders across 76 countries on the real-world role of AI in observability. The data reveals a sharp distinction between intelligence and autonomy — and a critical blind spot most teams have.