Mike Vizard reports on the expansion of AI-driven tools within Grafana Labs’ observability platform, highlighting the new Grafana Assistant and other innovations designed to empower IT professionals and simplify incident response.

Grafana Labs Extends AI Capabilities of Observability Platform

Author: Mike Vizard

Grafana Labs unveiled several enhancements to its observability platform at ObservabilityCON 2025, including powerful AI features for IT operations. Central to the update is the general availability of the Grafana Assistant, an artificial intelligence agent that facilitates:

Natural language query generation in PromQL, LogQL, and TraceQL
Role-based access controls for dashboards
AI-supported incident management and mitigation recommendations

Key Announcements and Features

Grafana Assistant and Investigations

Grafana Assistant: Now available to general users, it enables IT teams to quickly analyze telemetry data and generate actionable insights using AI.
Grafana Assistant Investigations: A preview tool providing automated analysis of the observability stack, suggesting hypotheses, and creating mitigation recommendations.
Root Cause Analysis Workbench (RCA Workbench): Consolidates data anomalies, dependencies, and incident timelines into a unified interface, accelerating the time to identify and resolve issues.

Adaptive Traces and Profiles

Adaptive Traces and Adaptive Profiles: Dynamic tools that intelligently capture and manage performance data from production workloads, providing cost-controlled storage and enhanced troubleshooting capabilities.

Compliance and Cloud Integration

Grafana Federal Cloud: Now FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 compliant, supporting regulated industries and government requirements.
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC): Offers enterprises a managed Grafana instance on their cloud of choice for a flat-rate fee.

Database and Service Observability

Extension of database observability with new integrations.
The Entity Catalog automates service discovery and dependency mapping, creating curated health dashboards in real time.

Long-Term Vision

Leveraging AI to convert proprietary monitoring data into OpenTelemetry-compatible formats, ensuring broader data coverage and future-proofing the platform.

Impact on IT Operations

Grafana’s new capabilities are aimed at reducing barriers to advanced observability:

Less reliance on expert-level query knowledge due to AI-powered interfaces
Faster incident investigation using knowledge graphs and AI-driven insights
Streamlined compliance and integration for diverse enterprise and government IT environments

Mike Vizard notes that while autonomous self-healing via AI is not fully here yet, the platform’s advancements significantly democratize observability and incident response for IT professionals at all levels.

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