In 2021, Grafana Labs experienced a year of significant developments, marked by the introduction of a forever-free tier of Grafana Cloud, the re-licensing of their core open source products to the AGPLv3, and the successful hosting of GrafanaCONline 2021, which featured numerous virtual sessions and community stories. The company released Grafana 8.0 with features such as a unified alerting system and fine-grained access control, acquired the load testing tool k6 to enhance their observability stack, and raised $220 million in Series C funding to further develop their open-source platform. Additionally, Grafana Labs launched Grafana OnCall to streamline on-call management, released Tempo 1.0 as a tracing solution, and expanded their Enterprise Stack with new offerings like Grafana Enterprise Logs and Traces. The company also hosted its first company-wide hackathons, encouraging cross-functional collaboration and innovation, and remains committed to its open-source roots while being open to hiring new talent globally.