Introducing Assistant Watchers: agentic alerting for Grafana Cloud
Introducing Assistant Watchers: agentic alerting for Grafana Cloud
Watchers are a new Grafana Assistant capability that add an agentic option alongside your existing alerts. They’re built for the cases that are hard to express as a traditional rule: sometimes you can’t spell out every way something can go “wrong,” but you know exactly what “right” looks like. Ask the Assistant to set up a Watcher, describe what healthy looks like, and it keeps watch for when reality starts to drift.
Assistant Watchers work with Prometheus and Loki in Grafana Cloud today, so you can watch the real signal directly with no copying data somewhere else first. That’s especially handy for logs, where new error patterns tend to show up but alert rules you haven’t written yet can’t detect them. A Watcher runs continuously in the background, catching “right” turning into “wrong” so you don’t have to.
You can also close the loop in one motion: hand a firing Watcher straight to the Assistant or Assistant Investigations and start remediating right away.
