# Grafana Labs Ships Cloud Logs Search and Adaptive Telemetry Updates at ObservabilityCON 2026 > Grafana Labs released Cloud Logs query enhancements and Adaptive Telemetry updates, cutting log search volume 80-90% and telemetry spend 30-50% on average. - Published: 2026-10-20T18:07:47+00:00 - Section: Product Launches - Author: News Desk - URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-20/grafana-labs-cloud-logs-adaptive-telemetry - Source: [Financial Post](https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/grafana-labs-brings-faster-full-text-search-and-smarter-data-optimization-to-grafana-cloud-at-observabilitycon-2026) ## Key takeaways - Grafana Labs announced query performance enhancements to Grafana Cloud Logs, built on technology from its April 2026 Logline acquisition, now generally available at no additional cost. - Adaptive Logs Archive entered public preview, letting teams route logs to an object storage bucket they own in an open format. - Adaptive Metrics Auto-Apply reached general availability, continuously applying cardinality-reduction recommendations without human review. - Customers including Mux, TeleTracking, and Auditboard cut telemetry spend by 30 to 50% on average using multiple Adaptive Telemetry components. [Grafana Labs](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000009x/grafana-labs) announced new releases at ObservabilityCON 2026, including query performance enhancements to Grafana Cloud Logs that are now generally available and Adaptive Logs Archive in public preview. The [Financial Post](https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/grafana-labs-brings-faster-full-text-search-and-smarter-data-optimization-to-grafana-cloud-at-observabilitycon-2026) reported the updates, built on technology from the company's Logline acquisition, reduce log search volume by 80-90% and cut telemetry spend by 30-50% on average. ## Grafana Cloud Logs Search and Adaptive Telemetry Grafana Labs said the Cloud Logs enhancements, built on technology from Logline, which it acquired in April 2026, offer customers faster full-text search at no additional cost. The functionality identifies low-frequency logs such as request IDs and customer IDs over object storage, so an engineer paged at 1 a.m. can find exact IDs in seconds from an alert. "When I ran our first query on newly submitted logs after enabling Logline, the improvement was clear. We went from processing nearly a terabyte of logs in three minutes to around 100 gigabytes in under three seconds," said Timo Kirzdörfer, OpenTelemetry & Grafana Cloud Admin at DATEV eG. "That represents an 80–90 percent reduction in the volume of logs searched for newly submitted logs, and we saw the results immediately." Jen Villa, Senior Director of Product at Grafana Labs, said the economics of observability only work if teams keep the data worth keeping and can adjust that as a system's state changes. "Adaptive Telemetry handles the first, and the query performance enhancements we've made in Grafana Cloud Logs handle the second," Villa said. Adaptive Logs Archive lets teams route logs to an object storage bucket they own in an open format, retaining them in low-cost storage for investigations, audits, or compliance requests. Adaptive Metrics Auto-Apply is generally available, continuously applying cardinality-reduction recommendations without a human in the loop, with a Cost Mode safeguard that only applies recommendations that will not increase total active series. Query traces dropped by Adaptive Traces is also generally available, letting developers retrieve any trace by ID from the last 24 hours even if Adaptive Traces dropped it. ## Grafana Labs' Logline Acquisition and Funding Records Grafana Labs acquired Logline, an early-stage log query and full-text search company founded by Jason Nochlin, in April 2026 to introduce a new indexing approach for faster log searches within the Loki stack, according to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data). The same records list a $250 million Series E in March 2026, fully sold to 11 investors, and $1.055 billion in total equity funding since the company's founding in 2014. ## Earlier Grafana Labs Announcements Grafana Labs announced over 10,000 customers and $600 million ARR on August 26, 2026, and said it would host ObservabilityCON 2026 in San Francisco, Third News reported. NetBox Labs announced partnerships with NVIDIA and Grafana Labs on October 13, 2026, making NetBox a native source of truth for NVIDIA's NVCM and adding a NetBox plugin to Grafana's catalog, according to GlobeNewswire. OllyGarden raised $4 million from Datadog, Grafana Labs, and Dash0 on October 9, 2026, bringing total funding to about $5.6 million, Tech Funding News reported. ## Grafana Labs' State of Observability Report Grafana Labs and ETR, a Futurum company, also released the 2026 State of Observability Report this week. Among the 300 IT and engineering leaders surveyed, 78% increased observability spend last year and 73% expect to again, citing new products added to the stack and AI-accelerated development creating more to watch. ## Companies in this story - [Grafana Labs company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000009x/grafana-labs) · website: http://grafana.com --- News for Agent · https://newsforagent.com/llms.txt