# [[GrafanaCON 2026 Keynote]] ![[GrafanaCON 2026 Keynote.svg]] conference:: "[[GrafanaCON 2026]]" speakers:: "[[Torkel Ödegaard]], [[Raj Dutt]], [[David Kaltschmidt]], [[Poyzan Taneli]], [[Ted Young]], [[Mat Ryer]], [[Ward Bekker]]" - Grafana was actually written in Barcelona by Torkel, and Torkel is still active in coding Grafana today, 12 years later - 35M Grafana users, 7000 customers, $400M+ annualized revenue, 1600+ Grafanistas across 40+ countries ## What's new in Grafana 13 - New data sources. We now have 170 data sources x 120 panels - New visualizations - Graphviz panel - Annotations - Dynamic dashboards now GA - More responsive - Tab layouts - New: dashboard templates - Curated templates to get started quickly, like Golden Signals, DORA, North Star Metrics, etc - New: Saved queries - Library of reusable queries - New: Interactive learning ([[Grafana Pathfinder]]) - New: Git Sync - dashboards as code - Google ❤️ Grafana - Coming soon: Grafana Marketplace - Expanding plugin ecosystem into new use cases ## Loki [[Poyzan Taneli]] - New architecture: [[Project Thor]] - New query engine: [[Loki Query Engine]] - Columnar storage: [[Loki Data Objects]] - Needle in the haystack searches: targeted secondary indexes by [[Jason Nochlin]]. This will be added to Grafana Cloud later this year. ## OpenTelemetry [[Ted Young]] - Goal: to be as boring as possible-- that's good in telemetry - Metrics, logs, and traces finally stable. This is what OpenTelemetry needs to graduate from the [[CNCF]] - Stable instrumentation is the final boss. - Stage 1: "De facto stable" instrumentations goes v1.0 - Stage 2: Improve the data everywhere - What we want: system-wide installation ## AI [[Mat Ryer]] - Grafana Assistant - Assistant Investigations - orchestrate multiple agents to swarm over a problem - Automations for Assistant - Assistant now available for Grafana OSS! [[Sven Großman]], [[Ward Bekker]] - Assistant is available everywhere - Grafana Cloud - OSS Grafana - Grafana Enterprise - Command line: [[GCX]] - Can execute all sorts of commands on Grafana Cloud - [[o11y-bench]] - [[Project Sigil]] - Also includes online evaluations that can do system prompt analysis - ## Timestamps 00:00:00 What GrafanaCON is about 00:05:59 Where Grafana is going as a company 00:13:29 What's new in Grafana 13 00:24:43 What's new in Loki 00:33:38 What's new in OpenTelemetry 00:41:38 What's new in AI 01:05:16 Summary %% # Excalidraw Data ## Text Elements ## Drawing ```compressed-json N4KAkARALgngDgUwgLgAQQQDwMYEMA2AlgCYBOuA7hADTgQBuCpAzoQPYB2KqATLZMzYBXUtiRoIACyhQ4zZAHoFAc0JRJQgEYA6bGwC2CgF7N6hbEcK4OCtptbErHALRY8RMpWdx8Q1TdIEfARcZgRmBShcZQUebR44gAYaOiCEfQQOKGZuAG0AXX4IXDg4AGUoqHFUUDBIdXTqiCJlaRS6hkIECgAhXGwAa2VSYQ5iAGE2fDZSbggAYgAzZZX2 yGwRQKyASSr9CpGBhEnp2Yl5gEYEK6u1iA3SLahd9L7B4dGJqZm5qHIOZhwXBPO4PJ4vfQAMUI+HwFRgwTmgg8oM2mWeewObCOAHUSOpuHxwOs0TtMX9sQh4YiJMiSKjHuiIQAlYStDjhHJoC78EmMsnpADyQOwahg3AuiUSvPupIx6UhnCgkNw+hh4rQAFYZWCmXtFVkyoQjNUeNLibL+fL9AAVLBQACCLS4EmCiygDPB5OBjsebAokhCxG4HCE sJ1cohAFExg6/QGg3NgSMqBGrRC4ymbfAmiMhGNPXqFeQMqyaahQ+GLcxsCNYQANbgAZgALHEeC3EgBOLsAdibFxbLc1A5lNbr+AAmtwAGxdxLaAAcTZnbc1vcXFx42otRjYBm4tQ69AIQmqF2JAF80170qz88QOcwueg8wWZcMSEaTYTzR1P8QFQIHA3A7v+pAkAAsmwxAIDGuCaMEwZoIsBBhB+EFfKch7EpAPRTMhr7KJouAABQ8BcvbULwlH URRVGoAumoAJRrJAzIIMoYbAnMpDEWRPBNtKvBCXRomMdoLEQFeN7oliRzClA7AAiGYb4DKiwlggHFjEwhAcMoOF1JAmQIUh3B/GevLrEQIFoJZCDWRAHCqtUDlOcIUBEByFmkFZuEQPowJHKQAByrm+f5xmBcFTDwYhCCEQ5MkWnYABWCDYNkZQuXA0GwfF5koWhjkWv0SmMDa+74EZHSwIgSJpFlylsbKzBQAY2YNWglbqQF0yDIl3Cofg6EBZ pBhlE1SmcMNJVOfgoSOs1lXVapsIpR0jjMGZxxKvakGZEIc2jaVHSaPpjgGQACoEixMJkYhzKZCXBjKhDMD0l36cohVDfZflnZAH2QSQcBsPpUA5SUcA/X9SWAzKmhsJgU3BM1nD5U0ehZLg+nSWA150IsMLhIel4gJeQA== ``` %% ## Granola ### Summary ![[plugins/Granola/GrafanaCon 2026 Keynote]] ### Transcript [[plugins/Granola/Transcripts/GrafanaCon 2026 Keynote-transcript|GrafanaCon 2026 Keynote-transcript]]