Grafana Labs launched Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud in private preview.
Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud is a tightly integrated context-aware chat experience. It connects users to their observability data through a flexible interface that lets them ask anything, go places, make changes, and even run investigations in natural language.
Users new to the Grafana ecosystem can learn more about general concepts just by asking, and as they dig into specifics, the agent will drill into actual observability data available via Grafana to provide highly contextual answers to questions. More experienced users can run queries in natural language and even have data analyzed as part of a multi-step investigation.
Grafana Assistant appears as a sidebar within the Grafana interface, receiving context about the current page and providing relevant suggestions. Use cases for Grafana Assistant are limitless, but the team concentrated on a few core areas to start, ensuring it’s easy to interact with the agent through natural language to:
- Ask questions about their observability data.
- Navigate to specific views for metrics, logs, traces, or profiles.
- Make bulk changes to dashboards.
- Create new dashboards through natural language descriptions.
- Perform multi-step investigations by following leads in their data.
"As the world's most ubiquitous visualization platform, Grafana is evolving to incorporate the latest technologies that are transforming our industry. With Grafana Assistant, we're making AI-powered observability a reality, not just as a concept but as a practical tool that helps users more quickly and easily diagnose issues, respond to incidents, build dashboards and alerts, and more – regardless of where their telemetry lives or how it's structured," said Tom Wilkie, CTO, Grafana Labs. “Grafana’s open source roots provide a unique advantage for our AI assistant; the wealth of content on the open web produced by our global community has enabled foundation models to be experts on Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki out-of-the-box. Our LLM-based agent was built to hit the ground running and provide meaningful assistance from day one.”
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