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Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today announced a year of strong momentum across customer adoption, product innovation, and market recognition. Over the company's past fiscal year, which ended Jan. 31, Grafana Labs continued to scale its business while helping thousands of organizations turn signals into action across increasingly complex, AI-driven systems.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today announced that it has been named both a Leader and an Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Performance Testing. The report recognizes Grafana Cloud k6 for its strong innovation, comprehensive platform capabilities, and ability to help organizations continuously validate performance and reliability across the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today announced the launch of Grafana Mimir 3.0, the latest evolution of its open-source, horizontally scalable metrics backend. Introduced at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Mimir 3.0 marks an architectural milestone, delivering new levels of reliability, performance, and cost efficiency for Prometheus-compatible monitoring at enterprise scale.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today announced major advancements that make observability simpler, faster, and more accessible at ObservabilityCON 2025. The new capabilities — spanning full-stack observability, database query analysis, open standards, and service-centric alerting — are designed to help every engineer, from developers to SREs, reduce complexity and deliver reliability at scale.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today at ObservabilityCON 2025 announced the general availability of Grafana Assistant, a context-aware AI agent built for Grafana, along with the public preview of Grafana Assistant Investigations, an AI-powered feature that extends Grafana Assistant to accelerate multi-step incident investigations. Combined with Grafana Labs’ other ObservabilityCON announcements focused on cloud economics and ease of use, these AI-powered capabilities form a comprehensive approach to reducing complexity, lowering costs, and empowering every engineer with actionable insights.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today announced new updates that give organizations greater control over observability costs, more deployment flexibility, and enhanced compliance for mission-critical environments. Announced at ObservabilityCON 2025, the updates include Adaptive Traces (generally available), Adaptive Profiles (private preview), Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), and the general availability of Grafana Federal Cloud with FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 compliance. These updates complement Grafana Labs’ other ObservabilityCON announcements, including new AI assistants and other updates that help every engineer reduce toil and resolve incidents faster while lowering the overall cost of observability.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today announced the completion of a secondary transaction led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, with participation from Sapphire Ventures and Tiger Global. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, GIC, Coatue, Sequoia Capital, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital also took part.

Grafana Labs, the open observability cloud, today announced it has been ranked number 13 on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners. This marks Grafana Labs’ fifth consecutive year on the list.

Grafana Labs, the open observability cloud, today announced the public preview of Grafana Assistant, an AI-powered observability tool that allows users to interact with logs, metrics, and traces using natural language. Now available to all Grafana Cloud users, Grafana Assistant helps accelerate root cause analysis, automate query creation, and make monitoring workflows more accessible to developers, SREs, and IT teams at every skill level.

Grafana Labs, the open observability cloud, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. It was evaluated for its fully managed observability offering, Grafana Cloud, based on specific criteria that analyzed the company’s overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today announced it is collaborating with Microsoft to integrate Grafana dashboards directly into Microsoft's Azure Monitor. This agreement establishes Grafana as an integrated visualization experience for Azure users.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is making major announcements that underscore its ongoing support for open source development, including the release of Grafana 12 with observability as code functionality and the donation of its eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool, Beyla, to OpenTelemetry. The company is also unveiling the future of AI in observability with a new agentic LLM built right into Grafana.

Grafana Labs, the observability company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today announced it has obtained Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Authorization through Palantir Technologies’ FedStart Program. Additionally, Grafana Labs has achieved compliance with Impact Level 5 (IL5) requirements, the corresponding authorization for DoD agencies. This is an important milestone that makes enterprise-grade observability accessible to organizations operating in highly regulated environments.

KUBECON – Grafana Labs, the observability company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today announced the results of its annual Observability Survey alongside significant advancements to its cloud native ecosystem that help users get the most from open source technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry.

Grafana Labs, the observability company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is sharing substantial contributions it has made to the open source community to make it easier to use projects in the CNCF ecosystem, including OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, which continue to skyrocket in popularity. In addition, the company is unveiling new features tailored for Kubernetes platform teams using Grafana Cloud.

ObservabilityCON – Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing a series of groundbreaking updates during the keynote at ObservabilityCON in New York City.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open, and composable operational dashboards, today announced the successful completion of a primary and secondary transaction totaling approximately $270 million in proceeds to the company and certain of its stockholders, along with several growth milestones that solidify its position as a leader in the observability industry.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today made three major announcements that build on its commitment to the open source community: the release of Grafana 11.0, Loki 3.0, and Grafana Alloy – the company's open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today announced new enhancements to help address the challenges of Kubernetes monitoring and provided updates on its contributions to the open source ecosystem. These updates come in advance of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, the industry’s largest open source conference dedicated to Kubernetes, Prometheus, and other cloud-native technologies, taking place March 19-22 in Paris, France. These new developments will be featured at the Grafana Labs KubeCon booth (L6).

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today at its annual ObservabilityCON in London is announcing a range of new updates to help make it easier and faster for users to get value from observability. This includes the acquisition of Asserts.ai, whose technology will help Grafana Cloud users better understand their observability data and find issues more quickly, from the infrastructure to the application layer.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing new Grafana Cloud capabilities designed for Kubernetes platform teams seeking to reduce cloud costs and gain more unified monitoring experiences across their entire cloud native infrastructure.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing the release of Grafana 10 and kicking off celebrations for the open source project’s 10-year anniversary. The celebrations will include the annual GrafanaCON community conference and GrafanaCON Local meetups in more than 20 cities around the world this week, and the release of a documentary, chronicling the journey of the Grafana community, later this year. A teaser is being released today at GrafanaCON.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous open and composable operational dashboards, today announced updates to its fully managed Grafana Cloud observability platform: The powerful new Adaptive Metrics feature, which enables teams to aggregate unused and partially used time series data to lower costs, is now available for broader public access. This feature leverages enhanced insights into metrics usage recently added to Grafana Cloud's Cardinality Management dashboards, which are now available in all Grafana Cloud tiers, both free and paid. Together these advancements, powered by the open source project Grafana Mimir, help organizations rapidly scale at cloud native pace while optimizing metric cardinality and controlling costs.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous open and composable operational dashboards, today announced updates to Kubernetes Monitoring in Grafana Cloud, the solution for all levels of Kubernetes usage within an organization. These new features target resource utilization and predictions, historical state analysis, and simplified third-party integrations. Additionally, the Grafana Labs team shared new functionality for Kubernetes users in Grafana Incident, its tool for easier incident management, and will present on numerous topics at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2023, including advances in high-resolution histograms in Prometheus.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous open and composable operational dashboards, today announced the availability of the full LGTM stack on Grafana Cloud in AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new offering makes it simple for AWS users to access, deploy, scale, and procure Grafana Cloud services with just a few clicks.