Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, Loki, Mimir and Tempo, the leading open source software for visualizing operational data. They operate an observability platform specializing in the commercialization of these and other open-source IT system monitoring solutions. Grafana provides dashboards and visualizations that unify metrics, logs, and traces from across an organization's infrastructure and applications.

The company was founded in 2014 by Torkel Ödegaard, the original creator of Grafana, along with Raj Dutt and Anthony Woods - technologists with deep experience building monitoring tools at scale. Ödegaard's work on time-series databases at eBay laid the foundations for Grafana, while Dutt previously founded and sold infrastructure company Voxel. Their vision is to make observability data truly open by providing an open-source stack with greater flexibility and cost savings than proprietary alternatives.

Grafana Labs aims to solidify its position as the leading open-source observability platform through continued innovation. Grafana Labs presents a unique opportunity to contribute to leading open-source projects while being part of a rapidly-growing startup. However, the company must carefully balance its open-source ethos with building a sustainable business model around proprietary enterprise features and services. It also faces intensifying competition from incumbents like Datadog as observability becomes a strategic priority for enterprises.