Grafana Labs

☀️ Our summer momentum is getting even hotter! Today we're thrilled to announce that we've blown past $250M ARR and 5,000 customers, closed a new funding round, and more. Read about our acceleration and achievements from Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE & theCUBE: https://lnkd.in/gGA8uZ9p

This week continues to blow us away. We've reached 200k followers on LinkedIn! 🎉 This comes on the heels of soaring past $250M ARR and 5,000 customers, closing a new funding round, and being named a Leader on the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. We couldn't do it without our amazing community. Thank you!

⛺️ Step right up — season 2 of Grafana's Big Tent podcast is here! In the first episode, "Cache Rules Everything Around Me," Alan Kasindorf (Memcached maintainer) Mat Ryer, Danny Kopping, and Ed Welch get candid about about caching — exploring everything from CPU to application-level caching and sharing strategies to supercharge the performance of high-traffic, distributed systems. 🎧 Tune in to the full episode or check out the transcript: https://lnkd.in/gx_Fqn3j

🚨 Workshop alert! Meet and interact with Loki — a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus — at #ObservabilityCON in NYC: https://lnkd.in/gb-xa5ai We'll show you: 🐊 The fundamentals of collecting and shipping logs to Loki and Grafana Cloud Logs 🐊 The power of the Explore Logs app for quickly navigating through vast amounts of log data 🐊 How to uncover valuable insights from log patterns 🐊 The advanced log query capabilities of Loki and Grafana Cloud Logs

"The recommendations published by Adaptive Metrics enable organizations to automate the process of assessing what metrics are needed and where. [TeleTracking] quickly slashed its metrics costs by using an early iteration of Grafana Cloud’s Adaptive Metrics. Within a few weeks, after addressing all the defects and getting Adaptive Metrics fully operational, they realized a 50% reduction in costs." Oren Lion (Director of Engineering at Teletracking) shares how they slashed observability costs in half with Adaptive Metrics in Grafana Cloud.

In case you missed them, here’s a recap of recent Grafana k6 releases and some of the exciting updates they brought to our user base — including TypeScript support, async APIs for browser, and more: https://lnkd.in/gyRrhAXM

It’s been a big year for Co-Founders Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, Anthony Woods, and the Grafana Labs team. They’ve achieved several growth milestones that solidify their position as a leader in the observability industry, including: → Surpassing $250M in ARR, fueled by new customer growth of over 60% year over year → Gaining over 20M users and 5K customers → Expanding their customer base to over 5,000, with major clients including Citigroup, Salesforce, and Microsoft Additionally, they’ve secured $270M in a Series D extension. At Lightspeed, we're proud to have led Grafana's Series A and B rounds, played a significant role in their Series C and D, and now lead this latest extension. We’re committed to backing visionary founders with ambitious ideas, and Grafana exemplifies that kind of team. https://lnkd.in/ggMEz3KV

🔥 Summer *vacation*? Nah, it’s summer *momentum* and we’re on fire! ☀️ Gartner® included us as a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms  ☀️ Forbes named us to the #Cloud100 for the 4th year in a row ☀️ We were featured on the Nasdaq Tower ☀️ Plus more exciting announcements this week — stay tuned! 2024's been pretty amazing for Grafana Labs. Check out what the community and industry has been saying about us: https://lnkd.in/gerZb96s

“I like the diversity of the plugins we can add into #Grafana.” That’s what our Big Tent philosophy is all about and we’re proud to see our customers love it too. See the full Grafana Cloud review via Gartner Peer Experiences here: https://gtnr.it/3xxLyck

So an engineer walks into a bar...(chart) and watches this video. Grafana Developer Advocate 🤠Leandro Melendez (Señor Performo) describes how bar charts can help users by using rectangular bars to visually compare different categories of data, making it easy to identify patterns, trends, and outliers at a glance: https://lnkd.in/gZSrjNG3