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Grafana Labs Brings Faster Full-text Search and Smarter Data Optimization to Grafana Cloud at ObservabilityCON 2026

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Adaptive Logs Archive lets teams keep more logs for less, and faster queries for rare values in Grafana Cloud Logs help them, and their agents, find what matters in seconds

SAN FRANCISCO, October 20, 2026--Grafana Labs, the company behind the open agentic observability cloud, today announced new releases at ObservabilityCON 2026 that help teams manage their telemetry in the AI era, finding the right log line in seconds and keeping only the telemetry worth paying for as AI workloads scale. Major query performance enhancements to Grafana Cloud Logs, built on technology from the company's Logline acquisition, are now generally available, and Adaptive Logs Archive is in public preview.

AI is massively increasing telemetry volumes. Coding agents are turning everyone into a developer, so more software is being built, faster, and all of it needs to be watched. The agents add to the load too, since every agent call and tool call emits its own telemetry. Left alone, observability costs grow with every new workload, which makes cost and query optimization non-negotiable for running AI at scale. In the 2026 State of Observability Report, also released this week by Grafana Labs and ETR, a Futurum company, 78% of the 300 IT and engineering leaders surveyed increased observability spend last year and 73% expect to again, citing new products added to the stack (61%) and AI-accelerated development creating more to watch (60%).

"The economics of observability only work if you keep the data worth keeping and can dial that up or down as your system's state changes, and that's more true than ever with the explosion in telemetry driven by AI," said Jen Villa, Senior Director of Product, Grafana Labs. "But even the data worth keeping is still massive, so you still need to be able to find what you're looking for in it, fast. Adaptive Telemetry handles the first, and the query performance enhancements we've made in Grafana Cloud Logs handle the second."

Find the one log line that matters, in seconds

Built on technology from Logline, which Grafana Labs acquired in April 2026, Cloud Logs now offers customers faster full-text search, at no additional cost.

This added functionality identifies logs with low frequency like request IDs and customer IDs over object storage, so an engineer paged at 1 a.m. can find the exact IDs in seconds, straight from the alert. Agents send far more queries than people do, so faster queries let agents and engineers move faster together.

"When I ran our first query on newly submitted logs after enabling Logline, the improvement was clear. We went from processing nearly a terabyte of logs in three minutes to around 100 gigabytes in under three seconds," said Timo Kirzdörfer, OpenTelemetry & Grafana Cloud Admin, DATEV eG. "That represents an 80–90 percent reduction in the volume of logs searched for newly submitted logs, and we saw the results immediately."

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