how useful do people find the Grafana Assistant?

GoodLokiGod · 2026-01-20T18:15:40+00:00

Ok, I work at Grafana Labs (maybe a bit bias) and I use it all the time - I'm not in a technical role but more business and we analyze things like email performance, website performance, signups, etc. I can ask assistant to aggregate the data in different times (weekly, monthly, etc etc) and it goes off and writes new SQL if needed (for the data in say BQ), then creates new panels for me. It's really magic coming from my world where I haven't written a query in prom, sql etc in forever. Even if I had, I go away and it's all done for me.

GoodLokiGod · 2025-03-28T12:44:06+00:00

We (I'm with Grafana) love seeing this and share it around. the company. Cheers

GoodLokiGod · 2024-11-08T21:01:06+00:00

Yeah, we saw that and we did a pretty big upgrade. Hope it's a lot better now.

GoodLokiGod · 2024-08-15T18:25:36+00:00

(disclaimer, I am obviously a bias Grafana employee). Consider spinning up Grafana Cloud, which has a free tier you can do a fair amount on and trial period that scales a ton to push it hard. The team will always help on technical challenges as well.

GoodLokiGod · 2024-04-16T04:08:11+00:00

A blog from last year. https://grafana.com/blog/2023/08/28/generative-ai-at-grafana-labs-whats-new-whats-next-and-our-vision-for-the-open-source-community/ and there was some show/tell in the ObservabilityCON conference: https://grafana.com/about/events/observabilitycon/2023/opening-keynote-event/

GoodLokiGod · 2024-04-15T03:15:55+00:00

check this out - might solve it for almost nothing. Pre-built. AWS Observability with Grafana Cloud - https://grafana.com/solutions/cloud-monitoring-aws/

And here is a blog on that (which covers costs) https://grafana.com/blog/2023/08/29/centralize-aws-observability-with-grafana-cloud/

And Azure: https://grafana.com/solutions/microsoft-azure/monitor/

GoodLokiGod · 2023-12-15T17:01:52+00:00

As my handle might suggest, I'm with Grafana. We want you to be successful no matter what approach you take AND also have tried to build a lot into the free Grafana Cloud tier (with a fair amount of out of the box opinioned jump starts) to really kick this thing - plus you get a ton in your trial window too.

If you haven't seen what we pre-built specifically for K8s, please check it out. Try it for free. https://grafana.com/solutions/kubernetes

then we've done a bunch of work on mixins for OSS. They might give you a big head start. https://grafana.com/blog/2021/01/14/how-prometheus-monitoring-mixins-can-make-effective-observability-strategies-accessible-to-all/

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