# Grafana watches your dashboards. Cleric investigates your production.

> Grafana watches your dashboards. Cleric investigates your production across alerts, systems, and teams.
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> Markdown version of https://cleric.ai/compare/grafana for AI agents and LLMs. Site index: https://cleric.ai/llms.txt

Grafana adds AI inside Grafana Cloud, while Cleric also handles issues across your full production environment.

- Start free trial: https://cleric.ai/start
- Explore the product: https://demo.cleric.ai
- Book a demo: https://cleric.ai/demo

**Cleric is designed to work with Grafana.** Cleric connects to your Grafana dashboards, Prometheus metrics, and Loki logs. It adds cross-stack investigation that goes beyond your observability workflow.

## Four dimensions that matter in production

| Dimension | Cleric | Grafana Assistant |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Investigation surface | Observability, cloud, code, deploys, tickets, chat, and customer context. | 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 or Microsoft Teams thread, or a scheduled proactive scan. | 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. [Learn more](https://cleric.ai/technology.md) | 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. [Learn more](https://cleric.ai/technology.md) | Correlates signals at query time. No persistent learning from outcomes. |

## Grafana Assistant is an agent. Cleric is an autonomous learning system.

| Stage | What it covers | Cleric | Grafana Assistant |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orient | Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions. | Autonomous, human gated | Not covered |
| Detect | Recognizes a meaningful production issue. | Autonomous | Autonomous |
| Investigate | Correlates evidence to explain what happened. | Autonomous | Autonomous |
| Act / escalate | Takes action or routes to the right human. | Autonomous, human gated | Autonomous, human gated |
| Verify | Checks whether the fix actually worked. | Autonomous | Not covered |
| Learn | Improves future work from resolved outcomes. | Autonomous | Manual |

## 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.

- Start free trial: https://cleric.ai/start
- Explore the product: https://demo.cleric.ai
- Book a demo: https://cleric.ai/demo
- All comparisons: https://cleric.ai/compare.md
- Cleric vs AWS DevOps Agent: https://cleric.ai/compare/aws.md
- Cleric vs Azure SRE Agent: https://cleric.ai/compare/azure.md
- Cleric vs Bits AI SRE: https://cleric.ai/compare/datadog.md
- Cleric vs PagerDuty SRE Agent: https://cleric.ai/compare/pagerduty.md

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.