# [[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
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## 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
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### Summary
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### Transcript
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