Grafana White Paper Grafana Labs: Background Grafana began as an open source product that helps companies and organizations visualize, understand and act on their data. Usage of the open source product spread very quickly following its initial release due to its ease of use and its ability to bring together data from a variety of different sources and present it in an attractive, interactive user interface. In October of 2016, a company was formed around open source Grafana, aptly named Grafana Labs. Grafana Labs helps customers get the most out of open source Grafana and has become the center of a vibrant global community with millions of end users and thousands of developers. Additionally, Grafana Labs offers a suite of paid products and services that extend Grafanaâs native capability. Grafana Labs offers Grafana Enterprise, with key features and support for large organizations, and Grafana Cloud, a fully managed open and composable observability platform. Today, more than 500 customers including Bloomberg, eBay, PayPal and Sony turn to Grafana Labs to help bring their disparate data sources together, all through software that is vendor neutral and open source. The offerings that Grafana Labs offers center around three key offerings. Grafana Enterprise Grafana Enterprise is designed for organizations that want to get the most out of their mission-critical Grafana stack: not just Grafana itself, but also extending to support for Prometheus and Graphite. Building on everything the users already know and love about Grafana, Grafana Enterprise layers on premium data source plugins, enhanced authentication, and data source permissioning, as well as 24x7x365 support and tailored training from the core Grafana team. Grafana Cloud Grafana Cloud is a hosted and fully managed SaaS metrics and logs platform that helps Ops and Dev teams using Grafana to understand the behavior of their applications and infrastructure. Grafana Cloud allows users to provision and manage the best open source observability tools all through a simple UI and single API. Grafana Cloud includes your own dedicated Grafana instance along with a high performance metrics and logs backend, fully compatible with Graphite, Prometheus, and Loki. Choose one⦠or all! Loki Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream. Grafana Labs is proud to lead the development of the Loki project, building first-class support for Loki into Grafana, and ensuring Grafana Labs customers receive Loki support and features they need
