Grafana is offering its AI assistant for free to open source and on-prem users — though on stage at its Barcelona user conference this week, CEO Raj Dutt joked they shouldn't use it too much. The observability vendor also took the wraps off Grafana 13 and a re-architected version of its Loki log aggregator, while dropping strong hints about expansion into broader business analytics and workflow beyond its observability tools. Grafana 13 includes curated prebuilt dashboards tailored to specific data sources, templates around methodologies like DORA, and a generally available dynamic dashboards feature. Other additions include a redesigned query editor, a refreshed saved queries interface, and giving users the ability to create panels directly from saved queries. Git Sync, now generally available, lets ops teams manage "observability as code" within GitOps workflows.…