Full-stack observability for the agentic era | Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs was founded in 2014 by Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Woods, and is headquartered in New York, NY. The company builds and maintains the Grafana open-source visualization and observability platform, which originated as a fork of Kibana and has grown into one of the most widely deployed monitoring dashboards in the industry.

The company's primary products include Grafana (the open-source dashboard tool), Grafana Cloud (a managed observability platform), Grafana Enterprise, and a suite of open-source projects including Loki (log aggregation), Tempo (distributed tracing), Mimir (metrics storage), and Pyroscope (continuous profiling). Grafana's software is used by organizations including Bloomberg, eBay, PayPal, and numerous cloud-native and enterprise technology teams for infrastructure and application monitoring.

Grafana Labs raised a $220 million Series D round in 2022 at a $6 billion valuation, bringing total funding to approximately $771 million from investors including GIC, Sequoia Capital, and Light Street Capital. The company has grown to over 1,000 employees and has made several acquisitions, including k6 (load testing) in 2021 and Pyroscope (continuous profiling) in 2023.