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Raj Dutt

CEO, Co-Founder

While in college, Raj founded Voxel, a cloud and hosting company acquired by Internap in 2012. His two great passions are observability and aviation; he got his private pilot’s license almost 20 years ago and has completed his motorglider rating.

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Raj Dutt · 6 Apr 2022 · 3 min read

Grafana Labs announces $240 million Series D round led by GIC and welcomes new investor J.P. Morgan

We're grateful to our investors, our team of Grafanistas, and our community of users and customers.

Company news

Raj Dutt · 24 Aug 2021 · 2 min read

How we’re supporting the success of our community and customers with our recent funding rounds

Company news

Raj Dutt · 20 Apr 2021 · 3 min read

Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3

Raj Dutt · 4 Mar 2021 · 2 min read

Why we’re partnering with Elastic to build the Elasticsearch plugin for Grafana

Elasticsearch

Plugins

Grafana

Raj Dutt · 15 Dec 2020 · 3 min read

Our new partnership with AWS gives Grafana users more options

Community

Grafana

Raj Dutt · 17 Aug 2020 · 1 min read

Introducing the Grafana Accelerator Program, one of the investments we're making in the community...

Community

Raj Dutt · 24 Oct 2019 · 2 min read

What $24 Million Means for Our Open Source Community

Company news

Grafana

Everything You Need to Know About the OSS Licensing War, Part 3.

Raj Dutt · 18 Apr 2019 · 5 min read

Parts One and Two of this blog looked back at the ongoing open source licensing wars, focusing on...

Open source

Everything You Need to Know About the OSS Licensing War, Part 2.

Raj Dutt · 28 Mar 2019 · 6 min read

Where we left off: AWS had taken the Elasticsearch software and launched their own cloud offering in...

Grafana

GrafanaCon

Open source

Everything You Need to Know About the OSS Licensing War, Part 1.

Raj Dutt · 20 Mar 2019 · 7 min read

The emergence of a new breed of commercial open source company, challenging the dominance of public...

Grafana

GrafanaCon

Open source

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Grafana Labs announces $240 million Series D round led by GIC and welcomes new investor J.P. Morgan

How we’re supporting the success of our community and customers with our recent funding rounds

Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3

Why we’re partnering with Elastic to build the Elasticsearch plugin for Grafana

Our new partnership with AWS gives Grafana users more options

Introducing the Grafana Accelerator Program, one of the investments we're making in the community...

What $24 Million Means for Our Open Source Community

Parts One and Two of this blog looked back at the ongoing open source licensing wars, focusing on...

Where we left off: AWS had taken the Elasticsearch software and launched their own cloud offering in...

The emergence of a new breed of commercial open source company, challenging the dominance of public...