GrafanaCON 2026 announcements: A guide to all the latest news from Grafana Labs
Blog post from Grafana Labs
GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona unveiled significant updates for Grafana, including the latest Grafana 13 release, which enhances data insights through suggested and dynamic dashboards, as well as the introduction of the AI-powered Grafana Assistant for customized dashboard creation and streamlined SQL expressions. The event highlighted improvements in operating Grafana at scale, such as Git Sync for GitOps workflows and the Grafana Advisor tool for system performance. AI Observability in Grafana Cloud, now in public preview, offers real-time monitoring of AI agent behaviors, while the open-source o11y-bench helps evaluate AI agents on observability workflows. Additionally, updates to open-source projects like Loki and Pyroscope 2.0 focus on faster, more efficient logging and profiling, respectively, while k6 2.0 introduces AI-driven performance testing. The event also launched the Grafana Marketplace for plugin distribution and celebrated the Golden Grot Awards, recognizing innovative dashboards and contributions to AI observability.
| Trend | Post Mentions | Total Month Mentions | Posts | Companies | MoM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 25 | 5,365 | 1,022 | 211 | +12% |
| AI Agents | 3 | 7,077 | 1,566 | 283 | -11% |
| LLM | 3 | 7,728 | 1,422 | 276 | -3% |
| MCP | 3 | 12,895 | 917 | 204 | +80% |
| Real-time | 3 | 8,063 | 1,857 | 307 | -46% |
| OpenTelemetry | 2 | 1,245 | 153 | 50 | +28% |
| Harness engineering | 1 | 252 | 154 | 72 | +1% |
| Kubernetes | 1 | 2,481 | 447 | 128 | -2% |
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