Grafana

grafana.com · San Francisco, United States of America

Grafana Labs develops open-source and commercial software for monitoring, observability, and data visualization, enabling engineering and operations teams to collect, analyze, and visualize metrics, logs, and traces from diverse data sources. Its flagship products, including Grafana, Loki, and Tempo, are offered as self-managed software and as a hosted cloud service to enterprises and technology organizations. The company generates revenue through subscriptions to its cloud platform and enterprise editions, as well as support and professional services.

  • Observability & Monitoring
  • Business Intelligence & Dashboards
  • Cloud Infrastructure & Hosting
Revenue
$220.0M
Employees
1,200
Founded
2014
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States of America

What 151 Arbolus experts think of Grafana

Grafana shows a strongly positive NPS profile with the majority reporting 8-10 scores, reflecting high satisfaction among IT leaders and end users. Renewal intent exceeds 80% for most large and mid-sized enterprise users, with high spenders and long-tenure customers showing the strongest loyalty. Stickiness is high, with most implementations in use for over a year and deep integration across critical business workflows. Key feedback themes include flexible dashboards, strong ecosystem, cost efficiency, integration breadth, and reliable performance. Challenges relate to dashboard maintenance, alerting complexity, and operational overhead at scale.Overall Customer Sentiment: Positive

Who reviewed Grafana

Total customers 151 120 current · 31 former
Reviews growth +61 in six months
Seniority of respondents
  • C-Suite 61% (92)
  • Director 20% (30)
  • Manager 18% (27)
Engineering Executive C-Suite NPS 8 Will renew
Engineering Engineer Not specified NPS 10
Engineering Executive C-Suite NPS 7

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Sentiment

36 Net Promoter Score, from 150 scored reviews
  • Promoters 69
  • Passives 66
  • Detractors 15

Cumulative NPS by month

+0 over 6 months
  • May 8
  • Jun 8
  • Jul 8
  • Aug 8
  • Sep 8
  • Oct 8

Net Promoter Score across 11 reviews, accumulated up to each month. Category median 36 across 11 companies.

Praised

  • Comprehensive Integration Ecosystem
  • Flexible and Powerful Dashboards
  • Cost Effectiveness and Scalability
  • Automated Correlation and Insights

Criticised

  • Learning Curve for Advanced Use Cases
  • Operational and Maintenance Burden
  • Alerting and Correlation Complexity
  • Total Cost of Ownership at Scale

What customers say

Comprehensive Integration Ecosystem
“The biggest pros are its ability to connect seamlessly with Prometheus, numerous data sources, and strong open-source backing, making it very effective for aggregating diverse metrics.”
Flexible and Powerful Dashboards
“I value Grafana for its flexible, customizable dashboards that let us monitor different application and infrastructure metrics in one place with real-time insight.”
Cost Effectiveness and Scalability
“Grafana’s cost efficiency and scalability have allowed us to support growing systems while keeping observability costs under control compared to proprietary tools.”

Renewal intent

Plan to renew 65%
  • Will renew 73
  • Undecided 30
  • Not renewing 10

Plan to renew, by seniority

  • C-Suite 70% 66 answers
  • Director 59% 22 answers
  • Manager 60% 15 answers
  • Not specified 50% 10 answers
  • 8.6/10 Average score from customers who will renew
  • 7.4/10 Average score from undecided customers
  • 7/10 Average score from customers not renewing

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