Grafana ObservabilityCON 2026: Watchers GA and Agent Observability

Grafana Labs on October 20 at ObservabilityCON 2026 made Agent Observability and Assistant Watchers generally available in Grafana Cloud, while Grafana Managed Sandboxes and Pages entered public preview. The four changes aim to close the loop from detecting a degraded AI agent to receiving a proposed code fix without leaving Grafana, with Grafana Labs positioning the platform as an agentic ops co-pilot rather than a dashboarding tool.

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