IDC Business Value Study

IDC: Grafana AI delivers $1.67M in annual value per organization

With Grafana AI, incidents resolved 63% faster, new engineers got productive in three days, and senior engineers fielded far fewer how-do-I questions.

$1.67M

average annual benefit per organization

$1.03M

saved through engineering and SRE productivity

$650K

saved through IT cost and platform efficiency

What changed for the teams IDC interviewed

63%

lower mean time to resolution

49%

fewer support requests sent to senior SREs

46%

less on-call time spent gathering context

31%

higher engineering and SRE productivity, equal to 10.3 added FTEs

Where the value comes from

Grafana AI is the set of AI capabilities in Grafana Cloud, including Grafana Assistant and Assistant Investigations. These are the benefits participants described most often.

Incident context in real time

Signals across metrics, logs and traces are correlated the moment an incident starts. Responders see what is happening and who is affected, often in Slack before anyone is at a keyboard.

Less load on senior staff

Engineers, support staff and managers get their own answers in plain language. New hires work on their own in 3.1 days instead of 10.

Docs that write themselves

Dashboards, alerts, post-incident summaries and customer status updates come from a natural-language request. Status updates and reports took 73% less time.

A consolidated platform

Teams no longer needed separate tools for metrics, logs, incident response and front-end monitoring. IDC valued the tool reduction at $325,000 a year in cost avoidance, and IT teams were 52% more efficient.

“We use Grafana AI in almost every investigation and incident, and often get feedback on what’s happening, where, and who’s affected right in Slack before we’re even hands on keyboard.”

Healthcare organization

“We also get to findings about 20 times faster because we’re not stuck figuring out how to form log queries.”

Technology organization

“I get a lot less questions now, about 70% fewer random, low-level how-to questions, and the questions I do get are more in-depth.”

Software organization

Read the full IDC white paper

The Business Value of Grafana AI, by Megan Szurley and Shannon Kalvar, IDC. Sponsored by Grafana.

Frequently Asked Questions

IDC Business Value Research, The Business Value of Grafana AI, sponsored by Grafana, September 2026. All figures are averages per organization from interviews with four organizations and are directional, not statistically representative. IDC information used in promotional materials requires IDC’s prior written approval. Copyright 2026 IDC.

The Business Value of Grafana AI | IDC White Paper | Grafana Labs