Grafana Labs announced several major updates at GrafanaCON 2026. Key highlights include: Grafana Assistant, an AI agent with MCP server support and CLI integration for AI coding tools; a preview of a platform for observing AI applications; an open-source framework for evaluating AI agents; a simplified single-command OpenTelemetry installer for Linux with improved Kubernetes support; Grafana 13 with pre-built dashboards, Git workflows, improved API, and secrets management; and a Loki backend migration to Kafka for improved scalability with a redesigned query engine. Industry analysts note observability platforms are increasingly competing to govern AI agent behavior in production, with over a third of enterprises planning to spend more than $1M on observability in 2026.
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