--- title: "The Grafana AI SDK for Go: a shared foundation for building AI applications" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-grafana-ai-sdk-for-go-a-shared-foundation-for-building-ai-applications-yj3chy8zi source_url: https://grafana.com/blog/the-grafana-ai-sdk-for-go-a-shared-foundation-for-building-ai-applications type: article source: "Grafana Labs" published: 2026-08-25T19:17:33.064Z updated: 2026-08-25T19:42:39.974Z tags: ["golang", "observability", "grafana", "ai-sdk"] reading_time: 9 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. # The Grafana AI SDK for Go: a shared foundation for building AI applications **[Grafana Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/grafana)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Grafana Labs has open sourced the Grafana AI SDK for Go, a shared foundation built internally to stop teams from reinventing provider clients, streaming abstractions, and error handling for every new LLM experiment. It provides common interfaces for calling models, streaming responses, executing tools, generating structured output, and running multi-step agents, and it speaks the Vercel AI SDK's UI message stream protocol so a Go backend can stream directly to React hooks like useChat, useCompletion, and useObject. It currently supports Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI's Responses API, and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with provider integrations split into separate Go modules. The SDK is explicitly modeled on Vercel's AI SDK, tracks a public compatibility baseline against pinned upstream versions, and ships with Agent Observability middleware, structured logging, and Prometheus metrics support. Grafana frames it as a young, evolving project and invites the Go and open source community to contribute providers, middleware, and feedback. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the Grafana AI SDK for Go and what providers does it support? It is an open source Go SDK, built by Grafana Labs, that provides shared interfaces for calling LLMs, streaming responses, executing tools, generating structured output, and running multi-step agents. It currently supports Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI's Responses API, and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with each provider shipped as a separate Go module so applications only install what they use. _Go developers evaluating AI SDK options for backend LLM work can track releases like this on daily.dev._ ### How does a Go backend stream LLM responses to a React frontend using useChat? The Grafana AI SDK implements the UI message stream protocol used by @ai-sdk/react, so a Go handler can write server-sent events directly to useChat, useCompletion, or useObject without a protocol adapter. Tools, reasoning, sources, files, and application data move through typed message parts, letting Go backend teams and React frontend teams share the same AI SDK conventions. _Teams wiring Go services to AI SDK React hooks can follow protocol changes like this on daily.dev._ ### Is the Grafana AI SDK for Go a full port of the Vercel AI SDK? No, it is not a line-by-line port or a claim of complete feature-for-feature parity. It follows the Vercel AI SDK's model interface, orchestration layer, and frontend wire protocol as a reference for behavior and naming, but some upstream features are not yet implemented in Go, and Grafana maintains a public compatibility baseline and a parity coverage map documenting the known gaps and deviations. _Developers comparing AI SDK implementations across languages can weigh trade-offs like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [GitHub - grafana/ai-sdk: Grafana AI SDK for Go — streaming, tool-calling AI backends that speak fluent @ai-sdk/react](https://daily.dev/posts/github---grafana-ai-sdk-grafana-ai-sdk-for-go-streaming-tool-calling-ai-backends-that-speak-flue-sqsdxuwbl) · Hacker News · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [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: [#golang](https://daily.dev/tags/golang), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#grafana](https://daily.dev/tags/grafana), [#ai-sdk](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-sdk) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-grafana-ai-sdk-for-go-a-shared-foundation-for-building-ai-applications-yj3chy8zi)