# Grafana ObservabilityCON 2026: Watchers GA and Agent Observability > Source: > Published: 2026-10-22 07:08:38+00:00 Grafana Labs shipped four changes at ObservabilityCON 2026 on October 20 that move Grafana Cloud from a dashboarding platform into something closer to an agentic ops co-pilot. Agent Observability and Assistant Watchers are now generally available. Grafana Managed Sandboxes and Pages moved into public preview. Together, these close a loop that has frustrated every team running AI agents in production: from “something degraded” to “here is a proposed code fix,” without leaving Grafana. Assistant Watchers Are Now GA — And Alert Rules Cannot Compete Traditional alert rules have one structural problem: they only catch what you thought to define. A […] The post