Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven explains how we're thinking about observability and AI at Grafana Labs. She talks about how you can use AI with observability across the entire SDLC and the different tools you can use for both AI for observability and observability for AI.

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:18 AI for observability vs observability for AI
00:01:52 Planning: Grafana Assistant
00:03:05 Building: GCX, MCPs, AI SDK
00:06:43 Operating: Investigations, ML, Adaptive Telemetry
00:10:13 Testing: k6, Agent o11y, o11y-bench
00:15:15 Collaborating: Slack, MS Teams, Mobile, Desktop
00:17:21 Summary

Links/resources:

Learn about Grafana AI in general: grafana.ai

EVERYTHING BELOW IS GENERALLY AVAILABLE UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.

Grafana Assistant (generally available for Grafana OSS, Grafana Cloud, and Grafana Play):
Docs: grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/machine-learning/assistant
Try it out on Grafana Play: play.grafana.org

Assistant Workspace:
Docs: grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/machine-learning/assistant/platform/workspace

Assistant Automations:
Docs: https://gra.fan/assistantautomations

GCX (OSS):
Repo: https://gra.fan/gcxrepo
Docs: grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/as-code/observability-as-code/grafana-cli/gcx

Grafana MCP (OSS and Grafana Cloud):
Repo: github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana
Docs: https://gra.fan/mcpdocs

AI-SDK (OSS, released):
Repo: https://gra.fan/aisdk

Loki (OSS and Grafana Cloud):
Repo: https://gra.fan/lokirepo
Docs: https://gra.fan/lokidocs

Loki MCP (OSS):
Repo: github.com/grafana/loki-mcp

Tempo (OSS and Grafana Cloud):
Repo: https://gra.fan/temporepo
Docs: https://gra.fan/tempodocs

k6 (OSS and Grafana Cloud):
Repo: https://gra.fan/k6repo
Docs: https://gra.fan/k6docs
Docs for k6 MCP: grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/set-up/configure-ai-assistant

k6 agentic testing (public preview, Grafana Cloud):
Docs: https://gra.fan/agentictesting

Assistant Investigations (Grafana Cloud):
Docs: https://gra.fan/investigations

Grafana Incident Response Management (Grafana Cloud):
Docs: grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/irm/get-started

Grafana Machine Learning plugin (Grafana Cloud):
Docs: https://gra.fan/ml
Metric Forecasting docs: https://gra.fan/metricforecasting
Outlier Detection docs: https://gra.fan/outlierdetection
Sift Investigation (in maintenance mode) docs: https://gra.fan/sift

Adaptive Telemetry (Grafana Cloud):
Docs: https://gra.fan/adaptivetelemetry

Agent Observability (Grafana Cloud):
Docs: https://gra.fan/agento11y

o11y-bench (OSS):
Site: https://gra.fan/o11ybench

Assistant on Slack (Grafana Cloud):
Docs: https://gra.fan/assistantslack

Assistant on MS Teams (Grafana Cloud, private preview)

Grafana IRM mobile app (Grafana Cloud):
Docs: grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/irm/mobile-app

Assistant on Grafana IRM mobile app (Grafana Cloud, public preview)

Assistant Desktop (Grafana Cloud, public preview)

Assistant Search (Grafana Cloud, public preview)


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Reach out in our community forums: https://gra.fan/communityyf

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