Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is a New York-based software company founded in 2014, originally as Raintank. It specializes in open-source observability tools, building on a project started by Torkel Ödegaard in 2013. The company rebranded in 2017 and has since expanded its offerings to include logs, traces, and metrics through various acquisitions. Grafana Labs has achieved significant funding milestones, totaling $535.2 million, and is valued at over $3 billion. The company's core products include Grafana OSS, a free analytics and visualization web app, and Grafana Enterprise, which offers additional features. Grafana Labs also provides supporting tools like Loki for logs, Mimir for metrics, and Tempo for traces. The company focuses on unified monitoring to help users avoid vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions. Grafana Labs serves over 3,000 paying customers, including major organizations like Bloomberg, Microsoft, and Salesforce, and its tools are used in a variety of applications, from monitoring enterprise operations to NASA rocket launches.