1. What is Knowledge Graph (Asserts) for? #
Let Grafana Cloud link entities and signals to point to an incident's cause.
The principle #
Available in : ✕ OSS ✕ Enterprise ✓ Cloud
The Knowledge Graph, from the Asserts acquisition, builds a graph of entities (services, pods, nodes) and their relationships from telemetry, then flags the abnormal assertions explaining an incident. It is enabled at stack level with an Application Observability or Kubernetes Monitoring subscription.
2. Key features #
What the solution offers.
Overview #
| Feature | Role or availability |
|---|---|
| Graphe d’entités | Services, workloads and infrastructure linked automatically |
| Assertions | Normalized saturation, errors, anomalies |
| RCA | Root cause workflow around an alert |
3. Getting started #
First steps.
Step by step #
- Enable Application Observability or Kubernetes Monitoring.
- Open the graph of an alerting entity.
- Read assertions on neighboring entities.
- Confirm the cause with traces and logs.
Availability. Asserts workflows were first opened to Grafana Cloud Advanced customers: check your plan.
Sources #
From the Grafana Labs documentation consulted in November 2026: the split between editions and plans changes.
