Grafana Labs Blog

Grafana Labs just raised $24 million. Here’s what that means for our open source community.

Parts One and Two of this blog looked back at the ongoing open source licensing wars, focusing on the evolving situation between Elastic N.V. and AWS. …

Where we left off: AWS had taken the Elasticsearch software and launched their own cloud offering in 2015, and Elastic N.V. had doubled down on an …

The emergence of a new breed of commercial open source company, challenging the dominance of public cloud, has set off a licensing war that calls into …

Grafana Launches Microsoft Azure Data Source Microsoft is a whole new company. Way back in college, I remember that they were vehemently anti-Linux, …

My name is Raj Dutt, and I am the co-founder and CEO of raintank, Inc. As many of you know, raintank is the company behind Grafana, which our …

NOTICE: DISCONTINUATION OF SNAP TELEMETRY PROJECT. The Snap Telemetry project will no longer be maintained by Intel. Intel will not provide or …

Last Thursday was a big day for the raintank team. Not only did we release a beta of Grafana 3.0 and a preview of Grafana.net, but we also announced …

The snow has arrived in full force here in New York. Our subway authority, the MTA, has stored 31 miles of trains underground. The roads have been …

At raintank, all our software is open source. We haven’t talked much about how the whole stack will fit together (more on that soon…), but starting …

Some of the most fun I had last year was the few weeks I spent in Colorado and Utah, learning how to fly sailplanes. It’s really challenging, …

This fall has been busy, exciting and at times just plain crazy at raintank. We’ve been campaigning on both sides of the Atlantic, spreading the …

My co-founder Anthony wrote about our promising initial experiences with InfluxDB a few months ago. We’re bullish on InfluxDB, but it’ll probably take …

The only constant is change. The cliche is perhaps especially true when considering the open source infrastructure software landscape. Fifteen years …

It started as a crazy idea, but as some crazy ideas do, it became less crazy over time. My co-founder Anthony has been really concerned about design …

I’m starting to think there’s a lot that the monitoring world can learn from the aviation world, and vice-versa. Those that know me are …