Inside the Grafana AI Team Weekly: AI Observability for the OTel demo and LLMSpec (May 12, 2026)

This is an excerpt from Grafana's internal AI team weekly meeting where engineers demonstrate AI Observability integration with the OpenTelemetry demo, including a new 'guards' feature. Principal Software Engineer Sven Großmann shows the OTel demo integration while Yas Ekinci presents LLMSpec, Grafana's internal benchmark inspired by o11ybench for evaluating the Assistant. The video offers a behind-the-scenes look at how Grafana builds AI features, though not all features shown may reach production. Targeted at developers curious about Grafana's AI/ML observability roadmap.