Grafana Rearchitects Loki with Kafka and Ships a CLI to Bring Observability Into Coding Agent (opens in new tab)

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. By Claudio Masolo