# ObservabilityCON 2026 recap: What's new in AI, cost optimization… Canonical: https://brew.new/templates/grafana/observabilitycon-2026-recap-whats-new-in-ai-cost-optimization Brand: grafana.com Category: event-recap ![Preview of ObservabilityCON 2026 recap: What's new in AI, cost optimization…](https://cdn.brew.new/email-preview-ea6d1cd152cb0232-tracking_r57k7hs3sr8g53tqhs6rsmk7658gr8jv-1793128942128.png) ## Email content Hi there, Fresh off ObservabilityCON 2026, we're highlighting the latest Grafana Cloud updates to help you automate more with AI, optimize costs, and gain deeper visibility across your stack, from the underlying infrastructure to the end-user experience. Want the full rundown? Read our ObservabilityCON announcements blog or watch the opening keynote on demand for a closer look at everything we unveiled this week. Automate more of your operations with AI Automate more of your operations with AI New AI capabilities in Grafana Cloud help you automate routine tasks, investigate issues, and take action faster, all while keeping you in control. Here's what's new: Grafana Pages (public preview): Create custom, app-like visualizations by describing what you need, no code required. Assistant Watchers (generally available): Detect changes in telemetry patterns that traditional alert rules might miss, using always-on AI agents configured in plain language. Grafana Managed Sandboxes (public preview): Explore source code, propose fixes, and prepare pull requests in a controlled environment, with human review and approval. Read more about the latest AI updates → Cut costs, keep the value: what’s new in Adaptive Telemetry Cut costs, keep the value: what's new in Adaptive Telemetry New updates across Grafana Cloud's Adaptive Telemetry suite help you reduce costs while keeping the data you need for troubleshooting and investigations. Highlights include: Adaptive Metrics: Automatically apply optimization recommendations with auto-apply (generally available), and use the new cost-first mode to only apply recommendations that won't increase your total active series. Adaptive Logs: Store potentially unnecessary logs in lower-cost object storage with Archive (public preview), and bring them back when needed with Replay (sign up for private preview). Adaptive Traces: Optimize sampling with volumetric and diversity sampling (generally available), and query dropped traces (also generally available) by ID for up to 24 hours. Explore what’s new in Adaptive Telemetry → More connections, richer context for full-stack observability More connections, richer context for full-stack observability The latest updates to Grafana Cloud’s Knowledge Graph give people and AI agents a more connected view of how systems fit together, so they can investigate issues and find root causes faster. New capabilities include: More of your stack, connected: Get a more complete view of your environment with expanded Knowledge Graph coverage for frontend apps, synthetic checks, AI agents, and more. Richer operational context: Connect service ownership, on-call schedules, runbooks, and learnings from past incidents to the systems they relate to. More flexibility to map your environment: Define custom entities and relationships that reflect your organization's unique products and business processes. Learn more about Knowledge Graph → Want to learn more about these new features (and Grafana Cloud, in general)? Join us for Grafana Labs Office Hours, taking place Oct. 28 at 12 PM EST, to ask our technical experts live. The 5th annual Observability Survey is here! Please take a few minutes to complete the 5th annual Observability Survey, the largest community-driven survey on the state of observability. It tracks year-over-year trends around AI, cost, open source, and more. All published results will be anonymized (and, of course, you’ll have a chance to win some swag). Take the Observability Survey → In the news: ComputerWeekly: ObservabilityCON 2026: Grafana says it's time for AI agents to run software, not just write it HelpNetSecurity: Grafana Labs connects observability and incident response with Knowledge Graph ITBrief: Grafana Labs boosts log search as AI telemetry surges SiliconANGLE: Grafana Labs leans on AI agents to automate AI agent observability Take these new features for a spin, and let us know if you have any questions or feedback! 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