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Inside the Grafana AI Team Weekly: Guards for AI Observability (May 5, 2026)

This is an excerpt from a real AI team weekly meeting where we talk about the stuff we build and occasionally also demo them! In this one, Principal Software Engineer Sven Großmann shows a new feature he's working on for AI Observability, called "guards". We're showing parts of our team meetings to build in public in some small way and give you a sneak preview of what's to come. But not all features we show may make it to production! You've been warned. :)

Zero to Dashboard with Grafana Assistant and the Infinity datasource plugin

Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven demonstrates how to go from zero to dashboard in a few minutes without using any queries, with the help of Grafana Assistant and the infinity datasource plugin for Grafana. Nicole is using the rawg.io video game database API to visualize games and get recommendations for what to play next!

Generate test scripts from natural language with Grafana Assistant: introducing k6 Script Authoring

Performance testing is critical to ensure your applications stay reliable under load, but writing the scripts themselves often feels like a chore. Most engineers already know the scenario they want to test; the hard part is translating that intent into a working performance test. Even experienced developers who use k6 can lose time looking up syntax, configuring load stages and thresholds, or debugging boilerplate code before they can run a meaningful test.

Inside the Grafana AI Team Weekly: Workspaces and Investigations (April 28, 2026)

This is an excerpt from a real AI team weekly meeting where we talk about the stuff we build and occasionally also demo them! In this one, Staff Product Design Engineer Ben Darlow demos improvements to Workspace Home. Staff Software Engineer Sonia Aguilar and Principal Software Engineer Sven Großmann also demo a new dependency graph view for Investigations. We're showing parts of our team meetings to build in public in some small way and give you a sneak preview of what's to come. But not all features we show may make it to production! You've been warned. :)

How to embed Grafana dashboards into web applications

Note: This post originally published in October 2023 and was updated in May 2026 to include new methods and options for embedding Grafana dashboards. Grafana dashboards are powerful and flexible tools for observing applications and infrastructure, so it’s no surprise we get a lot of questions from the community about how to embed them into their web applications.

Why Some Roles Care About Open Source & Why Others Don't: 4th Annual Observability Survey | Grafana

Note: We're happy to share that since the recording of this video, OpenTelemetry *has* graduated from the CNCF! SREs, developers, and CTOs say open source is essential to observability. Engineering managers and directors? Not so much. Grafana's 4th annual observability survey — 1,363 responses — reveals a split inside the same orgs that's worth a conversation.

AI-assisted testing, extensions updates, and more: k6 2.0 is here

For years, teams have relied on k6 to take a more proactive approach to performance testing, ensuring they can catch issues early and deliver more reliable user experiences. That approach has helped make k6 one of the most widely used performance testing tools in the open source community today, with more than 30k stars on GitHub. Last year, we introduced k6 1.0, a major release that brought TypeScript support, native extensions, revamped test insights, and production-grade stability guarantees.

Eliminate noisy log lines with Adaptive Logs drop rules

Most platform and observability teams have logs they know are noise. These could be throwaway health check logs, forgotten DEBUG logs, or verbose INFO logs from little used services that only serve to inflate your bill. Regardless of what they contain and why they're there in the first place, the hard part is getting rid of them. Centralized teams want to easily and quickly prevent these logs from being ingested, without having to work with toilsome infrastructure change management to do so.