What did Grafana Labs launch during AI Week Day 1?

Grafana AI Week Day 1 shipped six products to general availability on Grafana Cloud: Assistant Investigations (autonomous incident responder), Assistant Workspace (shared chat + canvas), Assistant Automations (scheduled prompts), the Grafana Cloud MCP server, gcx (agentic CLI for dashboards and alerts), and Grafana Agent Observability for monitoring LLM apps.

What is the Grafana Cloud MCP server for?

The Grafana Cloud MCP server gives any MCP-compatible client — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or a custom agent — direct read and write access to dashboards, alert rules, incidents, and data sources without copy-pasting metrics. It ships as a Claude Code plugin and as a hosted service inside Grafana Cloud.

Which parts are not yet GA?

Three items stay in preview after Grafana AI Week Day 1: Assistant Watchers (public preview) monitors systems based on operational context, the Microsoft Teams integration (private preview) pushes findings into Teams channels, and Mobile Assistant (public preview) runs inside the updated Grafana Mobile app.

Where can I try Grafana Assistant Investigations?

Assistant Investigations is included with every Grafana Cloud stack, including the free-forever tier. Enable it from the Grafana Assistant sidebar, point it at an incident, and it will investigate metrics, logs, traces and profiles in parallel and return a shareable root-cause report you can edit before sending on.

Grafana Labs · 2026-07-27 · major

Grafana AI Week — six agentic ops tools land in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs opened AI Week on July 27 by pushing six AI ops products to general availability, headlined by Assistant Investigations, a Grafana Cloud MCP server and gcx, a new agent-friendly CLI.

Grafana's Assistant becomes an agent stack — investigations, MCP, and a CLI drop to GA on the same day.

Quick facts

Maker	Grafana Labs
Event	AI Week, 27–31 July 2026
Status	6 tools generally available today
New tools	Assistant Investigations, Assistant Workspace, Assistant Automations, Cloud MCP server, gcx CLI, Agent Observability
Previews	Assistant Watchers, Teams integration, Mobile Assistant
Availability	Grafana Cloud — free-forever tier and paid plans
License	Proprietary SaaS; gcx and MCP server published as Claude Code plugins

What is it?

Grafana AI Week Day 1 turns Grafana Assistant into a full agentic operations layer. Six products went generally available on July 27: Assistant Investigations, Assistant Workspace, Assistant Automations, the Grafana Cloud MCP server, the gcx CLI, and Grafana Agent Observability.

How does it work?

Assistant Investigations spawns background agents that fan out across metrics, logs, traces and profiles in parallel and return a signed root-cause report. The Grafana Cloud MCP server exposes dashboards, alert rules and data sources over the Model Context Protocol, and gcx lets Claude Code or GitHub Copilot manage those resources as code with GitOps semantics.

Why does it matter?

This closes the loop from planning to production for teams already running Grafana. SREs get autonomous root-cause reports without leaving their dashboards, and coding agents can now read live telemetry when they draft a change, not only when something breaks.

Who is it for?

SREs, platform teams, and developers building agentic ops workflows

Frequently asked questions

What did Grafana Labs launch during AI Week Day 1?: Grafana AI Week Day 1 shipped six products to general availability on Grafana Cloud: Assistant Investigations (autonomous incident responder), Assistant Workspace (shared chat + canvas), Assistant Automations (scheduled prompts), the Grafana Cloud MCP server, gcx (agentic CLI for dashboards and alerts), and Grafana Agent Observability for monitoring LLM apps.
What is the Grafana Cloud MCP server for?: The Grafana Cloud MCP server gives any MCP-compatible client — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or a custom agent — direct read and write access to dashboards, alert rules, incidents, and data sources without copy-pasting metrics. It ships as a Claude Code plugin and as a hosted service inside Grafana Cloud.
Which parts are not yet GA?: Three items stay in preview after Grafana AI Week Day 1: Assistant Watchers (public preview) monitors systems based on operational context, the Microsoft Teams integration (private preview) pushes findings into Teams channels, and Mobile Assistant (public preview) runs inside the updated Grafana Mobile app.
Where can I try Grafana Assistant Investigations?: Assistant Investigations is included with every Grafana Cloud stack, including the free-forever tier. Enable it from the Grafana Assistant sidebar, point it at an incident, and it will investigate metrics, logs, traces and profiles in parallel and return a shareable root-cause report you can edit before sending on.

Try it

Install the plugin at claude.com/plugins/grafana-mcp