%% date:: [[2021-08-12]], [[2021-07-12]], [[2021-06-24]], [[2022-08-29]], [[2023-01-20]], [[2023-04-23]], [[2023-05-05]], [[2023-05-12]], [[2023-10-19]], [[2023-10-31]] %% # [[Grafana Labs]] [site](https://grafana.com) Grafana Labs is the company built around what was initially just the visualization and analysis tool, [[Grafana]]. It is now comprised of several tools and services, as well as open-source projects. Grafana (and what eventually became Grafana Labs) was started by [[Torkel Ödegaard]] in 2015. On June 17th, 2021, Grafana Labs announced it had acquired [[k6 (tool)|k6]]. ![[grafana-full-stack.png]] ## Open source projects  ![[grafana-opensource-projects.png]] <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_DB-lNZW7LQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> ### Core LGTM stack The core LGTM stack consists of: - [[Grafana Loki]] (lead): log aggregation system that is very cost effective and easy to operate - [[Grafana]] (lead): monitoring and analytics platform that works with every database - [[Grafana Tempo]] (lead): distributed tracing system - [[Grafana Mimir]] (and [[Prometheus]]) ### Testing - [[k6 (tool)|k6]]: performance, load, and reliability testing platform and tool ### Other observability-related projects - [[Grafana Faro]] (lead): [[JavaScript]] [[SDK]] for [[Real User Monitoring]] of web applications and [[Frontend]] [[Observability]] - [[Grafana Pyroscope]] (lead): [[Multi-tenant]] and highly [[Availability|available]] [[Continuous Profiling]] tool and platform, merged with [[Grafana Phlare]] - [[Grafana Agent]] (lead): tool that collects [[Telemetry]] ([[Logs]], [[Metrics]], and [[Traces]]) and forwards them on to tools like [[Prometheus]], [[Grafana Loki]], or other [[OpenTelemetry]] endpoints. - [[OpenTelemetry]] (support): collection of tools, [[API]]s, and [[SDK]]s for [[Instrumentation|instrumenting]] applications with the purpose of getting [[Telemetry]] ([[Metrics]], [[Logs]], and [[Traces]]) back - [[Grafana Beyla]] (lead): [[eBPF]] auto-instrumentation #### [[Time-series database]]s - [[Graphite]] (support): time-series DB-- more traditional than Prometheus: data logging and graphing for time-series data - [[Grafana Metrictank]] (lead): not really time-series DB, but compatible with Graphite syntax and is multi-tenant, C backend (*no longer maintained*) - [[Prometheus]] (support): more modern monitoring system, time-series DB - [[Grafana Mimir]] (lead): it's a multi-tenant solution for Prometheus; managed Prometheus, Prometheus-as-a-service ### Operations - [[Grafana OnCall]] (lead): on-call management system with integrations to Slack, Telegram, voice, and SMS - [[Grafana Tanka]] (lead): configuration utility for [[Kubernetes|k8s]] cluster, powered by [[Jsonnet]] language ## Commercial offerings - [[Grafana Enterprise Metrics]] (GEM) - [[Grafana Cloud Metrics]] - [[Grafana Enterprise]] - [[Grafana Cloud dashboards]] - [[Grafana Cloud]] - [[Grafana Incident]] - [[Grafana Alerting]] - [[Grafana Synthetic Monitoring]] - [[Grafana Cloud Traces]] is the commercial solution involving [[Grafana Tempo|Tempo]] ## Resources %% - [Internal what's new page](https://admin.grafana.com/whats-new/) %% - [Public what's new page](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/whats-new): Lists all the new features in [[Grafana Cloud]]