Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the world's most popular open source analytics and interactive visualization platform, and a full suite of observability tools used by millions of engineers worldwide. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, Grafana Labs operates one of the most active open source communities in the DevOps and observability space, with Grafana used by more than 20 million users across 750,000 organizations globally.

Grafana is a feature-rich open source platform for creating, sharing, and querying dashboards and visualizations from virtually any data source. Grafana supports over 80 data source plugins including Prometheus, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres, MySQL, Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and many more, enabling teams to create unified observability views across their entire technology stack without migrating data into a single platform.

Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. Unlike traditional log management systems that index all log content, Loki indexes only the labels attached to each log stream, making it significantly more cost-effective to store and query large volumes of log data at scale. Loki integrates natively with Grafana for visualization and supports the same label-based query model as Prometheus for consistent operational experience.

Grafana Tempo is a distributed tracing backend that stores and retrieves traces from Grafana dashboards with deep integration with Prometheus metrics and Loki logs, enabling correlation across all three observability signals from a single interface. Grafana Mimir is a horizontally scalable long-term metrics storage solution compatible with Prometheus, designed for organizations that need to retain years of metrics data without scaling limitations.

Grafana Cloud is the fully managed SaaS version of the complete Grafana Labs observability stack, providing Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir as a managed service with built-in alerting, machine learning-based anomaly detection, and synthetic monitoring capabilities. The platform's generous free tier makes it accessible to individual developers and small teams, while enterprise tiers provide advanced security, compliance, and support features for large organizations.