Discover all the new ways you and your agents can connect and customize this powerful tool—including accessing Grafana Assistant from self-managed environments.

Grafana is an open-source analytics and monitoring platform that allows users to visualize and analyze metrics from various data sources. The Grafana blog covers topics such as data visualization, monitoring best practices, and new features in Grafana software. Developers and data engineers can learn how to leverage Grafana for monitoring infrastructure, analyzing performance metrics, and creating interactive dashboards for data-driven decision-making.

Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is expanding Grafana Assistant, its AI observability agent, beyond Grafana Cloud to self-managed Grafana Enterprise and OSS environments via a one-click cloud connection. New features include customizable 'Skills' (runbooks and instructions that guide the agent), auto-approve for tool calls, automated scheduled summaries, and integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, a CLI, and an API. A new remote-hosted MCP server at mcp.grafana.com lets any external agent access Grafana Cloud data including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts. A new gcx CLI tool unifies existing tooling for agent-first, editor-integrated workflows. Additional updates include a Python runtime, EU inference, workspace view, and integrations with 50+ third-party data sources.

Grafana Assistant everywhere: Customize and connect to the AI agent to fit your specific needs