Grafana Labs announced major advancements that make observability simpler, faster, and more accessible.
The new capabilities — spanning full-stack observability, database query analysis, open standards, and service-centric alerting — are designed to help every engineer, from developers to SREs, reduce complexity and deliver reliability at scale.
Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph (formerly Asserts), built into Grafana Cloud's out-of-the-box experiences like Application Observability and Kubernetes Monitoring, connects metrics, logs, traces, and profiles into a single intelligent map of systems’ apps, databases, nodes, and more, so that instead of chasing scattered dashboards, teams gain:
- Unified, intelligent workflows: The Entity Catalog automatically discovers and maps all services and dependencies, surfacing curated dashboards and real-time health insights without requiring deep PromQL expertise.
- Faster root cause analysis: The new Root Cause Analysis Workbench (RCA Workbench) consolidates anomalies, dependencies, and timelines into a single view. Now integrated with Grafana Assistant, teams can turn 30-minute war rooms into 3-minute diagnoses.
- Out-of-the-box insights: When used alongside Application Observability, the knowledge graph provides built-in intelligence for Kubernetes, databases, and cloud services, reducing alert fatigue, shortening MTTR, and empowering engineers to troubleshoot effectively.
- Bring Your Own Knowledge (BYOK): Teams can integrate existing dashboards, alerts, and labels into the knowledge graph. Democratize expertise by layering custom context alongside out-of-the-box insights, giving everyone a shared understanding of system behavior and state during RCA.
“With Application Observability powered by the knowledge graph, we’re delivering true full-stack observability,” said Manoj Archaya, VP of Engineering at Grafana Labs. “From infrastructure to applications, every signal is connected, every anomaly is contextualized, and every team — from developers to SREs — can move from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability.”
Grafana Cloud’s new Database Observability breaks open the black box, delivering query-level visibility and AI-powered optimization that make database troubleshooting faster and easier.
Key capabilities include:
- Full Query Visibility: Track every query across databases, with execution time, wait events, and error rates.
- Faster Root Cause: Correlate queries with application and infrastructure signals in just a few clicks.
- Deep Diagnostics: Drill into execution plans, schema details, and indexes to pinpoint inefficiencies.
- Actionable Optimization: AI-powered recommendations with ready-to-run code.
With recent updates to the Grafana Cloud Service Center, users have a unified, service-centric view that makes it easier to understand reliability, respond to incidents, and continuously improve.
New enhancements include:
- Service-defined indicators: Define your own service indicators, with all labeled/tagged resources automatically pulled into a single landing page.
- Clear performance summaries: View how critical indicators for each service have performed over a defined timeframe, making it easier to track service health at a glance.
- Faster troubleshooting: Jump directly from the landing page into pre-filtered product areas without needing to manually search and filter dashboards across Grafana products.
- Operational reviews for improvement: Run recurring Operational Reviews within the Service Center to identify trends, measure SLOs, and strengthen reliability over time.
By unifying dashboards and alerts into a single service view, Service Center helps teams quickly understand system health and work together more effectively.
Grafana Labs is offering native OpenTelemetry and Prometheus support in Grafana Cloud, featuring:
- Grafana Beyla: An eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool, enabling zero-code collection of key telemetry.
- Grafana Alloy: An optimized distribution of the OTel Collector with Prometheus pipelines, providing a production-grade, enterprise-ready collector.
- Fleet Management and Instrumentation Hub: Enterprise capabilities that help simplify rollout, remote pipeline management, and cost governance across massive estates.
“Our customers want the best of both worlds: the flexibility of open standards and the ability to find deep insights easily with Grafana Cloud,” said Myrle Krantz, Director of Engineering at Grafana Labs. “By packaging OpenTelemetry with production-grade tooling, we’re helping organizations accelerate adoption without sacrificing scale or control.”
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