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Grafana watches your dashboards.
Cleric investigates your production.
Grafana adds AI inside Grafana Cloud, while Cleric also handles issues across your full production environment.
Four dimensions that matter in production
Grafana Assistant Observability, cloud, code, deploys, tickets, chat, and customer context.
Grafana telemetry, dashboards, queries, and Assistant Investigations inside Grafana Cloud.
Can start from an alert, a Jira ticket, a customer escalation, a Slack thread, or a scheduled proactive scan.
Usually starts from Grafana signals, dashboards, or an investigation inside the observability workflow.
No walled garden. If a system has an API, Cleric can pull it into the investigation.
Broad observability integrations. The operating surface stays centered on Grafana.
Measured against real outcomes, with more accuracy and more autonomy over time.
Correlates signals at query time. No persistent learning from outcomes.
Investigation surface
Observability, cloud, code, deploys, tickets, chat, and customer context.
Grafana Assistant Grafana telemetry, dashboards, queries, and Assistant Investigations inside Grafana Cloud.
Definition of an issue
Can start from an alert, a Jira ticket, a customer escalation, a Slack thread, or a scheduled proactive scan.
Grafana Assistant Usually starts from Grafana signals, dashboards, or an investigation inside the observability workflow.
Integrations
No walled garden. If a system has an API, Cleric can pull it into the investigation.
Grafana Assistant Broad observability integrations. The operating surface stays centered on Grafana.
Compounding knowledge and accuracy
Measured against real outcomes, with more accuracy and more autonomy over time.
Grafana Assistant Correlates signals at query time. No persistent learning from outcomes.
Grafana Assistant is an agent. Cleric is an autonomous learning system.
Grafana Assistant Orient
Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.
Detect
Recognizes a meaningful production issue.
Investigate
Correlates evidence to explain what happened.
Act / escalate
Takes action or routes to the right human.
Verify
Checks whether the fix actually worked.
Learn
Improves future work from resolved outcomes.
Orient
Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.
Grafana Assistant Detect
Recognizes a meaningful production issue.
Grafana Assistant Investigate
Correlates evidence to explain what happened.
Grafana Assistant Act / escalate
Takes action or routes to the right human.
Grafana Assistant Verify
Checks whether the fix actually worked.
Grafana Assistant Learn
Improves future work from resolved outcomes.
Grafana Assistant When to choose Grafana
Grafana Assistant lets you build dashboards with natural language, explore logs inline, and run ad-hoc queries against your telemetry. If you want faster answers inside your observability workflow, choose Grafana.
Bottom line
Grafana Assistant does root cause analysis inside Grafana Cloud. Cleric investigates across your full stack, verifies outcomes, and compounds what it learns.
See how Cleric investigates your production issues
Setup takes minutes. Read-only by default. See how Cleric investigates production issues across your full stack.
Information about Grafana Assistant is based on publicly available data as of May 2026 and may not reflect the most current features or pricing. All third-party trademarks referenced on this page are the property of their respective owners. Cleric is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Grafana.