The One Time Hindsight is 2019: A Look Back at Our Year
We’ve had an eventful year here at Grafana Labs. As 2019 comes to a close, here’s a look back.
1. We celebrated 5 years of Grafana Labs.
![Grafana Labs Parties Grafana Labs Parties](/static/assets/img/blog/PartyAll_slideshow_600px.gif)
2. Active installations of Grafana more than doubled, to 482,000.
3. Our team grew from 37 to 105 working in 22 countries (up from 11).
4. We raised $24 million in Series A funding, which will support our vision of building an open, composable observability platform that brings together the three pillars of observability – logs, metrics, and traces – in a single experience, with Grafana at the center.
5. We added three key team members: Douglas Hanna, Chief Operating Officer; Dave Kranowitz, Vice President of Global Sales; and Ryan McKinley, Vice President of Applications.
6. Less than a year after we introduced it, Loki reached GA with v1.0.0.
7. Our team members spoke at 28 events, including a keynote at KubeCon EU and 6 talks at KubeCon NA.
![Joe Elliott's talk at KubeCon Joe Elliott's talk at KubeCon](/static/assets/img/blog/joe_elliott_kubecon.jpg)
8. We published 177 blog articles highlighting engineering work, offering how-tos, profiling team members, and even showing our workspaces.
![Simon Crute's workspace Simon Crute's workspace](/static/assets/img/blog/workspaces_simon1.jpg)
9. At PromCon, KubeCon NA, and AWS re:Invent, we introduced sustainable swag in the form of carbon offsets.
![Carbon offset card Carbon offset card](/static/assets/img/blog/carbon_offset_card.jpg)
Here’s to an equally exciting 2020!