Grafana Labs Announces Partnership with Google Cloud to Advance Observability for Highly Secure Cloud Workloads
NEW YORK, November 15, 2022 – Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous open and composable operational dashboards, today announced a partnership with Google Cloud to enable observability of operational data associated with highly secure cloud workloads via integration with Google Distributed Cloud Hosted. This new partnership makes it simple for Google Cloud customers to observe their cloud workloads with Grafana Labs’ open source technologies, including Grafana for visualization and Loki for log aggregation.
When confidential information creates a high risk of cyber attacks, some federal, state and local government agencies, and private sector organizations may utilize private cloud or air-gapped environments for their cloud workloads. Within these highly secure and closed environments, developers still need to observe how their infrastructure and applications are performing and troubleshoot when necessary. Grafana Labs has partnered with Google Cloud to facilitate the use of their technologies in these specialized environments.
“Google Distributed Cloud Hosted gives customers a solution that allows them to tap into modern cloud technologies for their workloads that can’t move to the public clouds due to security or sovereign restrictions,” said Brad Bonnett, Senior Director, Product Management at Google Cloud. “The technical integration of Grafana visualization tools with Google Distributed Cloud opens up new opportunities for our customers to conduct their business in highly secure environments.”
“At Grafana Labs, we want to make sure that our observability tools are available wherever and however it makes the most sense for our users. Recently some of our federal customers required deeper security for their cloud workloads,” said Ash Mazhari, Vice President of Corporate Development at Grafana Labs. “Through our partnership with Google Cloud, we are able to bring Grafana visualization and Grafana Loki log aggregation directly to users, all in a highly secure cloud environment.”
The U.S. Department of Defense already uses Grafana Labs technology for cloud native observability. In 2021, Grafana, Grafana Loki, and other parts of the Grafana stack were authorized by the DoD’s Iron Bank, a rigorously vetted repository of best-of-breed development tools and software capabilities. This authorization allows the 100,000 employees and contractors working on DoD software to immediately deploy these Grafana Labs technologies without additional approvals and security certifications.
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Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale, enabling organizations to see, understand, and act on all their disparate data so they can move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 25 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,400+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re 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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