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Matt is the VP of Culture at Grafana Labs. A Grafanista since 2015 primarily working with our commercial customers, Matt has recently shifted focus to what he most cares about - helping Grafana Labs to always be a place we love to work at.
How Grafana Labs is Democratizing Metrics Now

Metrics for all -- and all for metrics. Grafana Labs is on a mission to empower more people with...

6 min   |   17 Jun 2019

timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 9

Matt from Grafana NYC spent the week visiting Stockholm to focus on v5.0 with Torkel. Despite...

2 min   |   18 Aug 2017

One Year of Open Source, What I've Learned

The release of Grafana 3.0 got me a bit nostalgic. Thinking about how much fun I’ve had over...

6 min   |   17 May 2016

Friends don't let friends abuse pie charts

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5 min   |   4 Dec 2015

Litmus Insights: Diagnosing Human Fail

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3 min   |   17 Nov 2015

UX Insights: User Interviews

I’ve been conducting a series of chats with UX professionals in the Open Source community with...

4 min   |   6 Aug 2015

UX: The long road to the shortest path

Torkel and the rest of the team have been hard at work on the next generation of Grafana, which is...

6 min   |   10 Feb 2015

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