Grafana Labs Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization, Appoints New Federal Leader
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Grafana Labs Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization, Appoints New Federal LeaderNEW YORK, April 16, 2025 – 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.
FedRAMP High Authorization and DoD Impact Level 5
Grafana Labs has achieved a significant milestone with its FedRAMP High Authorization and IL5 compliance, enabling the company to deliver innovative observability solutions that allow government agencies and their commercial partners to better understand and manage their complex systems and infrastructure. Grafana Federal Cloud is a fully managed, highly scalable observability platform, powered by the industry-leading LGTM stack: Grafana Mimir for Prometheus metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, Grafana Tempo for traces, and Grafana, the de facto standard for data visualization.
“Our open source solutions have been used by federal agencies like the Department of Defense for years, but achieving FedRAMP High Authorization and IL5 compliance for our managed solution represents a significant step forward in our federal strategy,” said Ash Mazhari, VP of Corporate Development. “This authorization transforms Grafana from an open source tool to a strategic, managed observability platform for the most sensitive and mission-critical government infrastructure. Our partnership with Palantir accelerates our ability to deliver secure, scalable observability solutions that meet the highest standards of federal compliance and operational excellence.”
Grafana Federal Cloud is now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace as part of the Palantir Federal Cloud Service, making it accessible to federal agencies and their commercial partners. Interested organizations can sign up to learn more at grafana.com/contact/fedramp.
More Than A Partnership With Palantir
Palantir, a key partner in Grafana Labs’ FedRAMP journey, is also a customer of Grafana Labs, which has enabled Palantir to consolidate its monitoring systems and meet the ongoing needs of its rapidly scaling business and operations.
“Grafana Labs’ solutions have allowed us to unify our observability tools across all environments, significantly reduce costs, and improve our operational efficiency,” noted Greg DeArment, Palantir’s Head of Production Infrastructure. “Having experienced the power of Grafana Labs’ observability platform, we are excited to bring this technology to the government sector.”
Palantir’s firsthand experience with Grafana Labs and deep expertise in highly regulated industries position the partnership to address the needs of organizations seeking robust, secure monitoring solutions that meet the specific requirements of high-level authorizations.
New Federal Go-To-Market Leadership
In conjunction with this achievement, Grafana Labs announced the appointment of Brent Leech as Regional Vice President, Federal, to lead the company’s federal and public sector go-to-market initiatives. Leech brings more than 20 years of experience in sales leadership in the federal technology sector, having previously served in senior roles at MongoDB, BMC Software, and Quantifind.
“I’m excited to join Grafana Labs at this pivotal moment,” said Brent Leech. “The combination of our FedRAMP High Authorization achievement, strategic partnership with Palantir, and the rapidly increasing demand for advanced observability solutions in government creates a strong foundation for Grafana Labs as we expand our federal footprint significantly in the coming months.”
Grafana Labs is actively building out its federal support team and is currently seeking talented professionals passionate about delivering cutting-edge observability solutions. Interested candidates with experience in federal technology, cloud infrastructure, or observability platforms are encouraged to explore open roles at Grafana Labs by visiting grafana.com/careers.
About Grafana Labs
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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