What is Grafana Assistant Watchers?

Modern software runs as many connected pieces, and when something breaks, engineers first need data about what the program was doing. Being able to collect that data, such as logs, metrics and traces, is called observability, and it is described as the first step in working out why a service has an outage. Grafana Assistant is an AI helper inside Grafana's monitoring tools; the maker describes it as helping operators, developers and site reliability engineers troubleshoot issues and manage dashboards. Assistant Watchers are a part of it: you describe in words what to monitor, and a watcher checks your telemetry on a schedule and reports notable changes.

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