Grafana Labs Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms and Positioned Furthest in Completeness of Vision
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 15, 2026-- Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today announced it has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for the third consecutive year, and positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis for the second year running. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260715814984/en/ 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms We believe this placement reflects where the market is headed: toward open, composable observability that helps teams in the AI era understand systems that are increasingly complex and agentic, and rapidly scaling thanks to AI-assisted engineering. A Platform Built for the AI Era According to Grafana Labs’ 2026 Observability Survey, operational complexity and overhead are now the top observability challenge, even as adoption of managed observability continues to climb, with half of organizations now using managed observability in some form (up from 43% in 2025). Telemetry keeps growing, systems keep getting more distributed, and teams are tired of paying twice: once for data they do not need, and again in engineering time when something breaks, and nobody can see the full picture. What changed in the last year is the scale of that problem. AI has become production...
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Grafana Labs also recently announced o11y-bench , an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real-world observability and SRE tasks.
