Releasesby IbisGrafana Managed Sandboxes: from root cause to pull request, without leaving Grafana
Preview5 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 21, 2026
Observability usually stops at telling you what’s wrong. With Managed Sandboxes, now in public preview , Grafana Assistant can hand its diagnosis to a coding agent and get you to a fix. The agent gets the full context: the alert, the log lines, the traces, and the suspected commit.
Topics: AI agents, LLMs, Security, Data integration, Observability
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