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Torkel Ödegaard

Torkel is the creator of Grafana, the open source metrics dashboard that Grafana Labs is built around. He enjoys seeing people use metrics more through beautiful and easy to use software. Torkel is infatuated with the theory of evolution.

I am not sure who coined the term Democratize metrics first, if it was me or Raintank CEO Raj Dutt....

5 min | 30 Sep 2015

We’ve been working to implement many of the features you’ve requested since the release...

5 min | 4 Aug 2015

Grafana 2.0 stable is now released and available for download. We provide deb, rpm and generic...

1 min | 20 Apr 2015

On March 1st 2015, we asked the Grafana community for a favor. We published a public survey to...

1 min | 9 Apr 2015

Today is an exciting day for the Grafana project, Grafana 2.0-beta1 is released! So much hard work...

6 min | 30 Mar 2015

As some of you already know, at least those who read the previous blog post on the future of...

5 min | 10 Feb 2015

This is a semi long blog post about my experience working on Grafana during 2014 and the plans for...

6 min | 12 Jan 2015

New release today! v1.9.0-rc1 is now available for download. play.grafana.org is updated to run...

3 min | 17 Nov 2014

New release today! v1.8.0-rc1 is now available for download. This is probably the biggest release...

6 min | 11 Sep 2014

New release today! v1.7.0-rc1 is now available for download. This is a big release with a many new...

2 min | 5 Aug 2014

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