# Grafana Labs

> Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the widely used open-source dashboarding and observability platform. Founded in 2014 to commercialize Torkel Odegaard's visualization tool, it has grown into a full-stack observability vendor built on a 'big tent' philosophy - letting teams unify metrics, logs, traces and profiles from any source without ripping out existing tools. Its LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) plus Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise now serve more than 7,000 paying organizations, including roughly 70% of the Fortune 50, with the business surpassing $400M in annual recurring revenue and a $6B valuation.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Torkel Odegaard (Co-founder & Chief Grafana Officer / creator of Grafana), Raj Dutt (Co-founder & CEO), Anthony Woods (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~1,800 employees (remote-first, globally distributed)
- **Products:** Grafana (OSS), Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise, Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo
- **Notable:** Grafana adopted as a de facto standard for observability dashboards worldwide., Surpassed $400M in annual recurring revenue., Serves more than 7,000 organizations, including ~70% of the Fortune 50.

## Products & services

- **Grafana (OSS)** — The open-source dashboarding and visualization platform with 160+ data source plugins for metrics, logs, traces and business data.
- **Grafana Cloud** — Fully managed observability platform bundling hosted Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces, Pyroscope profiling, k6 testing and alerting.
- **Grafana Enterprise** — Self-managed Grafana with enterprise plugins, security, support and governance features.
- **Grafana Loki** — Horizontally scalable, cost-efficient log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.
- **Grafana Tempo** — High-scale distributed tracing backend.
- **Grafana Mimir** — Highly scalable, long-term storage for Prometheus metrics.
- **Grafana Pyroscope** — Continuous profiling database for understanding code-level resource usage.
- **Grafana k6** — Developer-centric, scriptable load and performance testing tool.
- **Grafana Assistant** — AI assistant for observability and monitoring that helps build dashboards and run root-cause investigations.

## Achievements

- Grafana adopted as a de facto standard for observability dashboards worldwide.
- Surpassed $400M in annual recurring revenue.
- Serves more than 7,000 organizations, including ~70% of the Fortune 50.
- Reached a $6B valuation in its 2024 Series D.
- Built and open-sourced the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
- Shipped Grafana Assistant, bringing GA AI-assisted root-cause analysis to observability.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — At GrafanaCON 2026, Grafana Labs targeted the 'AI blind spot' with AI Observability in Grafana Cloud, an expanded agentic Grafana Assistant, the Grafana Cloud CLI (GCX), and the open-source o11y-bench benchmark.
- **2026-02** — Announced it capped a breakout year of growth, surpassing $400M ARR and 7,000+ organizations.
- **2025-10** — General availability of Grafana Assistant and public preview of Assistant Investigations for faster root-cause analysis.
- **2025-08** — Launched public preview of the Grafana AI Assistant for observability and monitoring.
- **2024-08** — Raised $270M Series D at a $6B valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://grafana.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/grafana
- GitHub: https://github.com/grafana
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYCwgQAMm9sTJv0rgwQLCxw
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grafana/

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Last updated: 2026-07-20