Democratizing metrics involves making data accessible and usable across an entire organization, breaking down traditional data silos, and fostering a culture where data from infrastructure, applications, and business operations can be utilized collaboratively. The creation of Grafana was motivated by the need to make time series metrics more accessible to a wider audience beyond just operations teams, extending to application developers, business analysts, and product managers. Grafana's ease of use compared to previous tools like Graphite dashboards has significantly increased the adoption of metrics within organizations, highlighting the importance of intuitive interfaces that facilitate metric visualization and alerting. This approach also emphasizes the value of an open-source, community-driven development model, enabling the integration of various data sources and promoting a more scientific, data-oriented company culture. The ongoing evolution of tools like Grafana reflects the early stages of metric adoption in enterprise environments, with many developers still unfamiliar with these capabilities, suggesting a substantial opportunity for further dissemination and integration of time series metrics into application development.