DevOps / SRE / Platform · 25.08.2026, 19:31 UTC
The Grafana AI SDK for Go: a shared foundation for building AI applications
| Schweregrad | info |
|---|---|
| Kategorie | DevOps / SRE / Platform |
| Quelle | Grafana Labs ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 25.08.2026 UTC |
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Starting an experiment with an LLM has never been easier. Keeping a growing collection of those experiments consistent is another matter.Earlier this year, as more teams began exploring AI features here at Grafana Labs, we repeatedly encountered the same pattern: a new experiment would start, move quickly, and build its own client for whichever model provider it needed. The next experiment would do the same, with a slightly different abstraction for streaming, tools, errors, or provider configuration.This was understandable, given the circumstances. Model providers were changing quickly, our teams were learning quickly, and coding agents made it possible to turn an idea into a working integration faster than ever. But that speed also made it easier for every integration to develop its own architecture.Eventually, we were maintaining a collection of solutions to what was essentially the same problem.And since most of our backend is written in Go, we built the Grafana AI SDK for Go to give our teams a shared foundation to work from. It provides common interfaces for calling models, streaming responses, executing tools, producing structured output, and running multi-step agents. It also speaks the protocol used by Vercel AI SDK frontend hooks, so a Go backend can stream directly to useChat, useCompletion, and useObject.We built it because we needed it inside Grafana Labs, but we open sourced it last month (alongside a broader collection of tools we released for building, operating, and understanding AI systems during our first Grafana Labs AI Week) because we think other …