Grafana Labs and Microsoft partner to deliver new first party Microsoft Azure service
NEW YORK, November 10, 2021 - Grafana Labs, the company behind some of the world’s most ubiquitous open and composable operational dashboards, today announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to develop a Microsoft Azure managed service that lets customers run Grafana natively within their Azure cloud platform. This new service makes it simple for Azure customers to deploy secure and scalable Grafana instances, and connect to open-source, cloud, and third-party data sources for visualization and analysis. Customers interested in proprietary plugins will be able to easily upgrade to Grafana Enterprise.
“At Grafana Labs, we don’t believe in a ‘one size fits all’ approach to observability deployment - we want our customers to be able to deploy Grafana where it makes the most sense for their infrastructure, whether that’s on a local server or in a public cloud platform like Microsoft Azure,” said Raj Dutt, CEO and co-founder at Grafana Labs. “Through our strategic partnership with Microsoft to bring Grafana directly to the Azure cloud platform, we’re giving millions of users instant access to the gold standard for monitoring and visualizing their cloud data, and the ability to upgrade at any point to integrate with even more data sources.”
Customers who choose the Microsoft Azure managed service can easily upgrade to the full Grafana Enterprise experience to maximize their existing IT infrastructure investments, with data source plugins to the most popular services in the market today, including ServiceNow, Splunk, MongoDB, New Relic, Datadog, and more. Customers also have access to customized training sessions, professional services, and enterprise-level customer support.
“Grafana Labs develops some of the most adopted monitoring and visualization tools in the market today, and we’re looking forward to combining the power of Grafana with the scale of Microsoft Azure,” said Scott Hunter, VP Director of Program Management at Microsoft. “This partnership provides a new option to run Grafana as a managed service for Azure and Grafana Labs customers and helps support the entire open-source community.”
To join the preview of the Microsoft Azure managed service, sign up at https://aka.ms/grafana/sign-up.
About Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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