Open-source observability and visualization platform built on the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), offering unified dashboards, alerting, and analytics across metrics, logs, traces, and profiles — available as self-hosted or fully managed via Grafana Cloud.
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Key Features
- Industry-leading open-source dashboards and data visualization
- LGTM stack: Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), Pyroscope (profiling)
- Grafana Cloud with turnkey Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, and load testing
- Grafana Assistant — AI-powered query generation, dashboard creation, and troubleshooting
- Assistant Investigations — autonomous multi-agent incident analysis (public preview)
- Knowledge Graph for automatic service/dependency mapping and full-stack observability
- Adaptive Telemetry suite for intelligent cost control across all signal types
- Native OpenTelemetry support; 160+ data source integrations
- Root Cause Analysis Workbench for rapid anomaly diagnosis
- Bring Your Own Cloud deployment (runs inside customer's AWS or GCP account)
- FedRAMP High and DoD IL5-compliant Federal Cloud offering
- Synthetic monitoring, database observability, and fleet management
Background
- Founded in 2014 by Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Woods; headquartered in New York.
- Open-source Grafana has 20M+ users globally; 7,000+ paying organizations including 70% of the Fortune 50.
- Surpassed $400M ARR in 2025; valued at $6B (August 2024 Series D extension), with reports of a new raise at ~$9B valuation in early 2026.
- Total funding ~$805M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, and CapitalG.