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# Grafana Assistant Expands to More Than 30 Data Sources

**[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Grafana Labs has expanded Grafana Assistant to support over 30 data sources, including Snowflake, Oracle, Elasticsearch, Dynatrace, MongoDB, and Jira. The AI-powered observability assistant lets engineers investigate incidents and troubleshoot distributed systems using natural language, automatically translating queries into PromQL, LogQL, SQL, or TraceQL as needed. The update aims to eliminate fragmented tooling by correlating metrics, logs, traces, and business data within a single conversation. This move is part of a broader industry trend where observability vendors — including Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, and New Relic — compete on AI capabilities rather than telemetry collection alone.

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## Questions this post answers

### Which data sources does Grafana Assistant support for natural language queries now?

Grafana Assistant supports more than 30 data sources, including newly added Snowflake, Oracle, Elasticsearch, Dynatrace, Honeycomb, MongoDB, Zabbix, and Jira, alongside existing cloud platforms, databases, observability backends, issue trackers, and infrastructure monitoring systems. It translates natural language into PromQL, LogQL, SQL, or TraceQL queries while respecting existing role-based access controls and permissions.

_Teams unifying scattered telemetry sources can track observability AI updates like this on daily.dev._

### How does Grafana Assistant compare to other AI observability assistants like Datadog Bits AI or Dynatrace Davis AI?

Grafana Assistant focuses on natural-language querying and correlation across 30+ data sources rather than general chat, generating dashboards and complex queries. Competitors take similar but distinct approaches: Datadog's Bits AI performs automated investigations and root cause analysis, Dynatrace's Davis AI combines causal reasoning with automation, Splunk embeds AI Assistant into security and observability workflows, and New Relic's Intelligent Observability auto-correlates telemetry and recommends remediation.

_Evaluating observability AI tools becomes easier by following comparisons like this on daily.dev._

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