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Official Grafana Labs press releases

June 17, 2021
Grafana Labs Brings Modern Open Source Load Testing to Observability with Acquisition of k6
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June 8, 2021
Grafana Labs Debuts Grafana 8.0, Tempo 1.0 at GrafanaCONline
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June 7, 2021
Grafana Labs Hosts Second Annual GrafanaCONline Bringing Global Community Members Together
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May 11, 2021
Grafana Labs Named A Cool Vendor in The 2021 Gartner ‘Cool Vendors in Monitoring, Observability and Cloud Operations’ Report
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February 17, 2021
Grafana Labs Introduces Grafana Enterprise Stack
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December 2, 2020
Grafana Labs Inducted into JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation
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September 17, 2020
Grafana Labs Releases Grafana Metrics Enterprise, a Streamlined, Cost-Effective Way for Organizations to Run Prometheus at Enterprise Scale
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August 17, 2020
Grafana Labs Raises $50 Million to Accelerate R&D Investments in Open Source Logs, Metrics and Composable Observability
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August 10, 2020
New Relic and Grafana Labs Partner to Advance Open Instrumentation
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May 18, 2020
Grafana 7.0 Delivers Major Visualization Upgrades and Empowers Users to Unite & Transform Data from All Sources Ranging from Metrics and Logs to Traces and Beyond
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April 2, 2020
Grafana Labs Announces GA Release of Cortex, the Horizontally Scalable Prometheus Implementation
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November 20, 2019
Grafana Labs Announces GA Release of Loki: Like Prometheus, But For Logs
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October 24, 2019
Grafana Labs Closes $24M in Series A Funding to Double Down on Open Source Strategy and Build the World’s First Open and Composable Observability Platform
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December 1, 2017
Grafana Labs to Join Cloud Native Computing Foundation to Share Expertise in Time Series Data Visualization
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November 30, 2016
Grafana 4.0 Brings Major Enhancements to Leading Visualization Tool
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March 31, 2016
Collaboration with Intel Improves Grafana Infrastructure Control
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Grafana Labs in the Press

June 21, 2021
The New Stack
Grafana Labs’ Purchase of k6 Adds Load Testing Directly to Observability Console
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June 18, 2021
IT Ops Times
Grafana Labs brings modern open source load testing to observability with acquisition of k6
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June 17, 2021
VentureBeat
Grafana Labs acquires load-testing startup K6
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June 17, 2021
DevOps.com
Grafana Labs Acquires k6 to Add Open Source Load Testing Tool
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June 17, 2021
SiliconANGLE
Grafana Labs buys k6 to help enterprises find reliability issues in their workloads
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June 11, 2021
TFiR
Grafana Labs: Open Source Observability Stack For Cloud Native
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June 10, 2021
DevOps Digest
Grafana 8.0 and Grafana Tempo 1.0 Released
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June 10, 2021
DevClass
Grafana 8 centralizes alert management, simplifies query troubleshooting
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June 8, 2021
SiliconANGLE
Grafana Labs eases IT monitoring with Tempo tracing tool and new Grafana release
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June 8, 2021
ZDnet
Grafana 8.0 integrates with Prometheus alerting
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June 8, 2021
DevOps.com
Grafana Labs Advances Open Source Visualization and Observability
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June 8, 2021
VentureBeat
Grafana Labs debuts new data tracing and observability features
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June 4, 2021
TechRadar
Best SecOps tools in 2021
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May 21, 2021
Datanami
Meet Raj Dutt, A 2021 Datanami Person to Watch
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May 12, 2021
INC
Best Workplaces 2021: 429 Companies That Make Work Worth It
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May 6, 2021
SiliconANGLE
Real-time data monitoring crucial as cloud computing grows
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April 23, 2021
Container Journal
The Future of Observability
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April 12, 2021
The New Stack
Grafana 7.5: Controversial Pie Charts and Loki Alerts
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March 24, 2021
InfoQ
Grafana Adds Enterprise Logs to Its Managed Observability Stack
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March 22, 2021
DevOps.com
Grafana Labs Aligns with Elastic on Observability
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March 16, 2021
The Weekly Squeak Podcast
Open Observability with Anthony Woods of Grafana Lab‪s‬
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March 16, 2021
Techstrong TV
Anthony Woods – TechStrongTV
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March 11, 2021
eWeek
Raj Dutt of Grafana Labs | eSPEAKS with Chris Preimesberger
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March 10, 2021
The New Stack
Grafana Adds Elasticsearch to its ‘Big Tent’ of Data Sources
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March 9, 2021
Forbes
America’s Best Startup Employers 2021
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March 2, 2021
Datanami
Datanami People to Watch 2021: Raj Dutt
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February 24, 2021
Database Trends & Applications
Grafana Labs Launches Grafana Enterprise Stack
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February 23, 2021
eWeek
Grafana Labs Introduces Enterprise Observability Stack
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February 22, 2021
APM Digest
Grafana Enterprise Stack Released
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February 18, 2021
SearchDataManagement
Grafana Enterprise brings observability stack on premises
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February 18, 2021
The New Stack
Grafana Adds Logging to Its Enterprise Observability Stack
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February 17, 2021
Datanami
Grafana Labs Upgrades Observability Platform
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February 17, 2021
DevOps.com
Grafana Labs Adds On-Premises Observability Platform
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February 17, 2021
SiliconANGLE
Grafana Labs bundles its enterprise IT observability tools into a single stack
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February 17, 2021
TechCrunch
Grafana Labs launches observability stack for enterprise customers
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February 4, 2021
OpenSource.com
Get started with distributed tracing using Grafana Tempo
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February 3, 2021
TechCrunch
Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana Labs’ Raj Dutt will tell us why they financially tied the knot (twice!)
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January 22, 2021
DevOps.com
Meet the Winners of the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards
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January 21, 2021
The New Stack
How OpenTelemetry Can Serve as Observability’s Missing On-Ramp
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January 19, 2021
InfoQ
Grafana Labs Announces Updates to Its Grafana Cloud with a Free Tier, New Pricing and Features
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January 12, 2021
techcrunch
Grafana Labs adds a free tier to its managed observability platform
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January 12, 2021
zdnet
Grafana Cloud adds free tier
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January 12, 2021
siliconangle
Grafana Labs upgrades its IT monitoring service with new features and free tier
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January 12, 2021
The New Stack
Grafana Extends Free Access for Cloud-Managed Observability
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January 12, 2021
Container Journal
Grafana Labs Adds Free Prometheus Monitoring Tier
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January 12, 2021
devclass
Grafana readjusts Cloud tiers so you don’t have to figure it all out alone
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December 17, 2020
The New Stack
Grafana’s AWS Partnership Portends Better Performance and a Potential Boon in Adoption
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December 15, 2020
siliconangle
AWS Reveals Array of New Cloud Observability and Other New Tools at re:Invent
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December 15, 2020
amazon
How AWS and Grafana Labs are Collaborating to Improve Grafana for All
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December 7, 2020
infoq
Grafana Announces Grafana Tempo, a Distributed Tracing System
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November 30, 2020
cooalliance
COO Alliance Second-in-Command Podcast: Grafana Labs Chief Operating Officer Douglas Hanna
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November 23, 2020
changelog
Balancing Business and Open Source
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November 18, 2020
searchitoperations
Observability Standards Emerge as Kubernetes Matures
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November 13, 2020
The New Stack
Lightning Demos: Open Service Mesh, Crossplane, Cloudstate, Open Policy Agent and Grafana
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November 4, 2020
IT Jungle
Grafana Provides a Visualization Option for IBM i Metrics
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October 29, 2020
searchitoperations
Observability Blitz Intensifies with Grafana, AppDynamics
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October 27, 2020
SD Times
Grafana Labs updates its observability portfolio with several new products
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October 26, 2020
devclass
We’re Loki trying to help log watchers: Grafana rolls out new system health tools to test and trace
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October 26, 2020
devops
Grafana Labs Looks to Simplify Observability
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September 29, 2020
The New Stack
Grafana Labs Invests in Strengthening Enterprise Integrations with Prometheus
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September 19, 2020
Container Journal
Grafana Labs Offers On-Premises Edition of Prometheus
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September 17, 2020
devops
Grafana Labs Releases Grafana Metrics Enterprise, a Streamlined, Cost-Effective Ways for Organizations to Run Prometheus at Enterprise Scale
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September 2, 2020
Business Insider
Startup CEOs Explain How Skipping the Formal Startup Pitch Process Helped Them Forge Better Long-Term Relationships with Their VCs: 'It's like Getting Married'
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August 29, 2020
TechRepublic
How Does Open Source Thrive in a Cloud World? "Incredible Amounts of Trust," Says a Grafana VC
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August 17, 2020
siliconangle
Grafana Labs Raises $50M in Oversubscribed Funding Round
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August 10, 2020
zdnet
Open Source Observability Marches On: New Relic and Grafana Labs Partnership Brings Benefits to Developers
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July 29, 2020
Fast Company
COVID-19 Upended Our Annual Conference. Here are 7 Lessons We Learned from Going Virtual
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July 15, 2020
infoworld
10 Important New Features in Grafana 7.0
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July 12, 2020
The Wall Street Journal
Seven Rules of Zoom Meeting Etiquette From the Pros
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June 17, 2020
crn
The 10 Hottest Cloud Startups Of 2020 (So Far)
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June 11, 2020
searchitoperations
The Definitive Guide to Enterprise IT Monitoring
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June 1, 2020
The New Stack
Observability, Distributed Tracing and Kubernetes Management
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May 28, 2020
jaxenter
Grafana 7.0: “We’ve Built One of the Best Visualisation Tools and It’s Not Tied to Any One Database”
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May 18, 2020
The New Stack
Grafana 7 Adds Tracing, Data Transformation, Plugins
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May 18, 2020
computerweekly
Grafana 7.0 Offers Observability via Metrics, Logs, Traces & the ‘New Beyond’
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April 13, 2020
DM Radio
WFH! Collaboration in the Post-COVID World
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April 12, 2020
insidebigdata
Everything You Need to Know About Dark Data⁠—and How to Bring It into the Light
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April 9, 2020
TFiR
TFiR: Cortex 1.0: Horizontally Scalable Prometheus Implementation
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April 6, 2020
The New Stack
Cortex 1.0 Offers Enterprise-Ready Distributed Prometheus Monitoring
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April 3, 2020
ITOps Times
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cortex
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April 2, 2020
infoq
Grafana Labs Announces GA of Cortex v1.0 and Discusses Architectural Changes
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March 20, 2020
devclass
Grafana 6.7 Helps Teams to do a Little Bit of History Repeating
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March 18, 2020
The Enterprisers Project
Remote Work: Lessons from a Remote-First Company
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March 9, 2020
devops
Top Six Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes and Docker
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February 18, 2020
opensource
10 Grafana features you need to know for effective monitoring
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February 12, 2020
searchitoperations
Grafana Loki Users Reap Log Data Savings, with Tradeoffs
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January 22, 2020
Business Insider
72 startups that will boom in 2020, according to VCs
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January 13, 2020
devclass
Still not good with K8s API? Grafana fires up Tanka for help
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December 4, 2019
The New Stack
Merging Logs and Metrics with Grafana Labs’ Loki 1.0 Launch
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November 27, 2019
devclass
Grafana focuses on CloudWatch, eases Docker image woes
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November 25, 2019
devclass
Prometheus, but for logs: Loki gets ready for production mischief
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November 20, 2019
Packt
Grafana Labs announces general availability of Loki 1.0, a multi-tenant log aggregation system
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October 24, 2019
siliconangle
Grafana bags $24 million to advance its open-source ‘observability’ suite
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October 24, 2019
zdnet
Is open source the way to go for observability? Grafana Labs scores $24M Series A funding to try and prove this
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October 24, 2019
TechCrunch
Grafana Labs nabs $24M Series A for open source-based data analytics stack
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September 11, 2019
forbes
The Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2019: Meet The 20 Up-And-Comers in Tech’s Hottest Category
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August 8, 2019
devclass
Grafana 6.3 expands Explore, treats enterprise users to live LDAP sync
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May 27, 2019
packt
Grafana 6.2 released with improved security, enhanced provisioning, Bar Gauge panel, lazy loading and more
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May 24, 2019
Application Development Trends
Open Source Analytics Platform Grafana Gets Update
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May 23, 2019
The New Stack
Grafana Loki’s Rockstar Creator on the Whens and Whats of the Production Release
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December 26, 2018
infoq
Grafana Adds Log Data Correlation to Time Series Metrics
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December 18, 2018
jaxenter
Marvel at Grafana Loki: The Prometheus of open source log backends
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December 14, 2018
The New Stack
TNS Context: Grafana Loki and KubeCon Takeaways
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October 16, 2018
Business Wire
Timescale and Grafana Labs Integration Enhances Time-Series Data Exploration and Visualization for Organizations
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April 21, 2018
TechCrunch
Special Report: New York’s enterprise infrastructure ecosystem
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January 19, 2012
infoq
Grafana Labs Announces Updates to Its Grafana Cloud with a Free Tier, New Pricing and Features
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