--- title: Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into AI description: Grafana Labs announced several major updates at GrafanaCON 2026. Key highlights include: Grafana Assistant, an AI agent with MCP server support and CLI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/grafana-labs-extends-observability-reach-deeper-into-ai-0i0qp3jxp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into AI | daily.dev og:description: Grafana Labs announced several major updates at GrafanaCON 2026. Key highlights include: Grafana Assistant, an AI agent with MCP server support and CLI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/grafana-labs-extends-observability-reach-deeper-into-ai-0i0qp3jxp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0I0qp3JXp.png og:image:alt: Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into AI 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. # Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into AI **[DevOps.com](https://daily.dev/sources/devops)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Grafana Labs announced several major updates at GrafanaCON 2026. Key highlights include: Grafana Assistant, an AI agent with MCP server support and CLI integration for AI coding tools; a preview of a platform for observing AI applications; an open-source framework for evaluating AI agents; a simplified single-command OpenTelemetry installer for Linux with improved Kubernetes support; Grafana 13 with pre-built dashboards, Git workflows, improved API, and secrets management; and a Loki backend migration to Kafka for improved scalability with a redesigned query engine. Industry analysts note observability platforms are increasingly competing to govern AI agent behavior in production, with over a third of enterprises planning to spend more than $1M on observability in 2026. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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