Grafana

Grafana

Open-source observability and visualization platform

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.

Home Page

https://grafana.com/

Key Features

  1. Industry-leading open-source dashboards and data visualization
  2. LGTM stack: Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), Pyroscope (profiling)
  3. Grafana Cloud with turnkey Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, and load testing
  4. Grafana Assistant — AI-powered query generation, dashboard creation, and troubleshooting
  5. Assistant Investigations — autonomous multi-agent incident analysis (public preview)
  6. Knowledge Graph for automatic service/dependency mapping and full-stack observability
  7. Adaptive Telemetry suite for intelligent cost control across all signal types
  8. Native OpenTelemetry support; 160+ data source integrations
  9. Root Cause Analysis Workbench for rapid anomaly diagnosis
  10. Bring Your Own Cloud deployment (runs inside customer's AWS or GCP account)
  11. FedRAMP High and DoD IL5-compliant Federal Cloud offering
  12. Synthetic monitoring, database observability, and fleet management

Background

  1. Founded in 2014 by Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Woods; headquartered in New York.
  2. Open-source Grafana has 20M+ users globally; 7,000+ paying organizations including 70% of the Fortune 50.
  3. 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.
  4. Total funding ~$805M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, and CapitalG.


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