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Grafana Rearchitects Loki with Kafka and Ships a CLI to Bring Observability Into Coding Agent
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At GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona, Grafana Labs unveiled Grafana 13, featuring a rearchitected Loki with a Kafka-backed ingestion layer. This innovative update enhances real-time monitoring and evaluation of AI systems through AI Observability in Grafana Cloud. A standout announcement is the new CLI, GCX, which seamlessly integrates Grafana Cloud data into agentic development environments. This transformative approach empowers developers to enhance their coding experience while maintaining a strong focus on observability, ensuring that complex data insights are accessible and actionable in real time.
At GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona, Grafana Labs announced Grafana 13 with the new Loki Kafka-backed architecture at the ingestion layer and the AI Observability in Grafana Cloud to monitor and evaluate AI systems in real time. In particular, the new CLI called GCX was announced, designed to surface Grafana Cloud data inside agentic development environments.
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