--- title: "Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad" url: https://daily.dev/posts/grafana-offers-ai-assistant-for-free-warns-users-not-to-go-mad-stwrwmzko source_url: https://www.devclass.com/ai-ml/2026/04/23/grafana-offers-ai-assistant-for-free-warns-users-not-to-go-mad/5218693 type: article source: "DEVCLASS" published: 2026-05-10T09:27:18.386Z updated: 2026-05-10T09:28:20.940Z tags: ["devtools", "observability", "grafana"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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 offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad **[DEVCLASS](https://daily.dev/sources/devclass)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Grafana announced at its Barcelona user conference that its AI assistant, previously cloud-only, is now free for on-prem and open source users, though CEO Raj Dutt humorously cautioned against overuse due to cost concerns. Grafana 13 was also unveiled, featuring curated prebuilt dashboards, DORA methodology templates, dynamic dashboards GA, a redesigned query editor, and Git Sync for observability-as-code. Grafana Cloud gains AI Observability for real-time visibility into AI agent behavior including token usage and policy violations. The Loki log aggregator was re-architected with Kafka-based ingestion and a new query engine, reducing redundant writes from 2.3x at petabyte scale. Grafana also hinted at expanding beyond observability into broader business analytics, converging business metrics with observability data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## 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 --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#grafana](https://daily.dev/tags/grafana) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/grafana-offers-ai-assistant-for-free-warns-users-not-to-go-mad-stwrwmzko)