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GrafanaCON 2026 announcements: A guide to all the latest news from Grafana Labs

GrafanaCON 2026 kicked off in Barcelona, which is a fitting city to reveal the latest updates in Grafana 13. In 2013, Grafana Labs Co-founder Torkel Ödegaard made the first commit for what would become Grafana while he was on vacation in the Catalan city. "I was traveling here for the Christmas holiday and I got a cold and spent most of the day in bed coding and working on Grafana," said Torkel during the opening keynote of GrafanaCON, our biggest community event of the year.

AI Observability in Grafana Cloud: A complete solution for monitoring your agentic workloads

The observability industry has developed great tools for using metrics, logs, traces, and profiles to monitor the cloud native applications that have dominated the last decade of software development. But when it comes to understanding what an AI system is actually doing, we’re often left reading raw conversations, guessing at quality, and reacting too late. And that’s a problem.

Introducing o11y-bench: an open benchmark for AI agents running observability workflows

Evaluating agents is hard. Verifying observability tasks is harder. Yes, AI agents have gotten dramatically and quantifiably better at coding and tool use, but observability presents a different kind of challenge. In a real incident, the hard part is rarely just writing a query. It's deciding which signal matters, figuring out whether a spike is noise or symptom, correlating metrics with logs and traces, and sometimes making a change in Grafana without breaking the dashboard another engineer depends on.

Grafana 13 release: get value from your data faster, manage operations at scale, and more!

Who says 13 is unlucky? With the release of Grafana 13, we're giving the community the most streamlined, flexible, and intuitive Grafana experience yet. Unveiled during the opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2026, the latest major release is all about helping you get value from your data faster, whether you’re spinning up dashboards, operating Grafana at scale, or extending the platform as your requirements change. Download Grafana 13.

Git Sync: Observability as code built for scale | Demo | Grafana Labs

In this video, Fabrizia Rossano and Roberto Jiménez demonstrate Git Sync, a feature that provides you with the power of Git version control right in your Grafana instance. Git Sync enables you to submit changes in your dashboards as pull requests and get them reviewed by your team directly from Grafana or from Git.

Grafana 13 TL;DR - What's New (and Worth Your Time)

Grafana 13 is here! In this video, we walk through the biggest updates and improvements, from faster ways to build dashboards to new features that make Grafana easier to manage at scale. We cover things like: If you’ve ever struggled with broken dashboards, messy layouts, or just getting started from scratch, this release focuses on making those workflows a lot smoother. This is a TL;DR, so we’re just scratching the surface—but it should give you a solid sense of what’s new and what’s worth checking out.

Monitor Databricks with Grafana Cloud for instant visibility into your workloads

If you're running Databricks workloads, you've probably asked yourself these types of questions: How much is this costing me? Why did that job fail last night? Why are my dashboard queries suddenly slow? We've been there, too. Databricks is fantastic for data engineering, ML, and analytics. But once you start running jobs, pipelines, and SQL queries at scale, you need a way to keep tabs on what's happening. That's why we built the Databricks integration for Grafana Cloud.