--- title: Automate all the things: How to use Grafana Cloud's AI... description: Grafana Cloud's AI features — Grafana Assistant (with Automations and Watchers), Assistant Investigations, and Agent Observability — can automate the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/automate-all-the-things-how-to-use-grafana-cloud-s-ai-to-relieve-the-operational-burden-u9s7glicm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Automate all the things: How to use Grafana Cloud's AI to relieve the operational burden | daily.dev og:description: Grafana Cloud's AI features — Grafana Assistant (with Automations and Watchers), Assistant Investigations, and Agent Observability — can automate the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/automate-all-the-things-how-to-use-grafana-cloud-s-ai-to-relieve-the-operational-burden-u9s7glicm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/u9s7glICM.png og:image:alt: Automate all the things: How to use Grafana Cloud's AI to relieve the operational burden og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Automate all the things: How to use Grafana Cloud's AI to relieve the operational burden **[Grafana Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/grafana)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Grafana Cloud's AI features — Grafana Assistant (with Automations and Watchers), Assistant Investigations, and Agent Observability — can automate the repetitive operational work that still burdens engineering teams after CI/CD pipelines run. Automations let you schedule recurring operational briefs (e.g., daily health summaries). Watchers continuously evaluate Prometheus and Loki signals against a baseline and post evidence-based alerts to Slack only when something genuinely warrants attention. When deeper analysis is needed, Watchers can trigger Assistant Investigations, which correlates metrics, logs, traces, and even GitHub context to produce a structured report. For teams shipping AI agents, Agent Observability enables offline experiment comparisons and online quality scoring as CI signals. The philosophy throughout is to offload vigilance — polling, correlating, summarizing — while keeping humans accountable for consequential decisions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Grafana Assistant Automations and is it generally available? Assistant Automations is a Grafana Cloud feature that lets users save an Assistant prompt and run it manually or on a schedule, now generally available. Each run gets a dedicated conversation and history, and automations can notify a Slack channel or send a direct message when a run completes, fails, or needs approval. _Teams standardizing recurring health checks can track how Grafana's automation tooling evolves via daily.dev._ ### What does Grafana Assistant Watchers do and what is its release status? Assistant Watchers, available in public preview, are always-on agents that evaluate a scoped set of Prometheus and Loki signals on an interval, calibrating queries and baselines based on user-provided context and sensitivity settings. They record ok, warning, or critical assessments, avoid repeat notifications for unchanged issues, and can escalate to Assistant Investigations when deeper analysis is warranted. _Engineers weighing anomaly-detection tools can follow watcher-style features as they mature on daily.dev._ ### When does Grafana Agent Observability become generally available and what does it track? Grafana Agent Observability reaches general availability the week the announcement was published, making conversations, generations, tool calls, traces, evaluation scores, latency, token use, and cost observable together for AI agents. It also catalogs agent versions and supports offline experiments comparing candidate agents against a production baseline before rollout, surfacing regressions in quality, latency, or cost. _Teams shipping AI agents can track observability tooling releases like this on daily.dev before rollout decisions._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Has Grafana Taken Lead in AI for Observability?](https://daily.dev/posts/has-grafana-taken-lead-in-ai-for-observability--q9hgfklco) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Spend less time on repetitive tasks with the new automation feature in Grafana Assistant](https://daily.dev/posts/spend-less-time-on-repetitive-tasks-with-the-new-automation-feature-in-grafana-assistant-mnier88el) · Grafana Labs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Smarter onboarding and planning with Grafana Assistant: How to ensure observability is baked in from the start](https://daily.dev/posts/smarter-onboarding-and-planning-with-grafana-assistant-how-to-ensure-observability-is-baked-in-from-1qc3bi8w8) · Grafana Labs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - 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