Grafana Labs' open-source Grafana MCP Server, a Go project with 3.5k GitHub stars last updated in September 2026, gives AI assistants access to a Grafana instance so they can search dashboards, run pa…
Grafana released agento11y, a coding-agent observability tool that monitors usage, cost, tokens, and tools across Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Pi, and Vibe in one place. The tool…
Grafana 13.2 shipped on August 18 with a rebuilt alert rule list, natural-language database observability through Grafana Assistant for live MySQL and PostgreSQL telemetry, and alert enrichment reachi…
A developer built TraceShrink, an OpenTelemetry Collector processor that replaces random tail sampling with cost-aware rules to cut LLM observability costs. The processor keeps traces based on cost th…
A new guide from Honeycomb compares seven Datadog alternatives for AI and agent observability, highlighting cost predictability, investigation complexity, and OpenTelemetry portability as key factors.…
Foxglove announced a Grafana integration powered by a data source plugin now live in the Grafana plugin catalog, enabling robotics data from the Foxglove data platform to be queried as time series in …
Grafana Labs announced general availability for the gcx CLI and Grafana MCP server, tools that let AI coding agents query live observability data from Grafana Cloud or self-hosted stacks during develo…
A developer released grafana-agento11y-hermes, an Apache-2.0 plugin that records LLM calls and tool executions from Hermes Agent as generations and emits OpenTelemetry traces and metrics to Grafana Cl…
Grafana Labs announced AI Week, a series of daily announcements about new AI capabilities in Grafana Assistant, the agentic LLM in Grafana Cloud, and a suite of AI tools for testing code, investigatin…
Supabase has launched a one-click Grafana Cloud integration that provides a fully-configured observability instance with authentication, metric scraping, and a pre-built dashboard for any plan, includ…
A practical guide from a former Grafana employee lists alternatives for teams that have outgrown the LGTM stack or are tired of Grafana Cloud's rising costs, grouping options by use case such as unifi…
A developer compared nine cloud monitoring tools across infrastructure metrics, APM, log management, external endpoint checks, and multi-cloud coverage. The comparison found that tools like DevHelm ex…
Ryan, CTO at airCloset, details how his team shaped observability for AI consumption by splitting monitoring into four axes—application, infrastructure, CI, and LLM—each with a tailored data shape, us…
Ryan Tsuji, CTO at airCloset, designed a shaped observability stack for AI consumption by splitting monitoring into four axes—application, infrastructure, CI, and LLM—each with its own data shape. The…