What Grafana shipped in 2026

Stop switching tools to find answers: Grafana Assistant now works across 30+ data sources

Grafana Labs extended its Grafana Assistant AI tool to query over 30 data sources—including observability platforms (New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace), databases (MongoDB, Oracle, Snowflake), and Jira—ena…

Building an end-to-end reliability testing strategy with Grafana Cloud

Grafana introduced a layered reliability testing strategy combining Synthetic Monitoring, Frontend Observability, and k6 to proactively detect, analyze, and validate application performance before and…

GrafanaCON Local Meetups

Grafana is hosting GrafanaCON Local meetups globally to recap key GrafanaCON announcements in a two-hour community setting. Events were held across Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific from May 26 to Ju…

Upcoming events

Grafana’s event catalog highlights upcoming ObservabilityCON 2026, regional ObservabilityCON on the Road events, and multiple free hands-on workshops covering metrics, logging, Kubernetes, OpenTelemet…

'Grafana's Big Tent' podcast: Anthropic on agentic coding, observability, and the future of software engineering

Grafana Labs’ podcast featured Anthropic’s Eric Burns discussing why Anthropic prioritized multi-cloud model availability, the shift to natural language as a UI for dashboards, and the rapid adoption …

Business intelligence plugins for Grafana: A support update

Grafana Labs extended its maintenance commitment for Volkov Labs' BI plugins through December 2026, following their acquisition in September 2025. The update includes continued compatibility with Graf…

How to get started with OpenTelemetry and Grafana (APAC Timezone)

Grafana Labs is hosting a webinar on July 8, 2026, focused on OpenTelemetry instrumentation and visualization using the Grafana ecosystem (Loki, Tempo, Mimir, and Grafana Cloud Application Observabili…

How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Assistant everywhere: Customize and connect to the AI agent to fit your specific needs

Grafana Assistant, its LLM-based observability agent, is now available to Grafana Enterprise and OSS users via a one-click setup tied to a Grafana Cloud account, extending beyond cloud-only access. Ne…

Pricing change detected for Grafana

Pricing updated for Grafana: - New tier: Free ($0/mo) - New tier: Pro (Metrics) ($6.50/mo per 1k series ($5.42/mo annually, 20% off)) - New tier: Pro (Logs) ($0.05/mo per GB ($0.04/mo annually, 20% of…

Full-stack observability in Grafana Cloud: How to investigate issues across services and infrastructure