As 2019 concluded, Grafana Labs reflected on the year's most-read blog posts, highlighting topics ranging from technical insights to company milestones. These included a detailed account of a production outage in Grafana Labs' Hosted Prometheus service and preventative measures taken afterward, as well as a preview of new visualizations in Grafana v6.2. Other popular posts covered GitLab's public dashboards, a personal home dashboard setup, and public Grafana dashboards from organizations like Wikimedia and CERN. Additionally, guides on creating display kiosks for Grafana dashboards and the design behind Loki, a log aggregation system, were featured. The series also included a talk on visualization best practices and an announcement about Grafana Labs raising $24 million in Series A funding, which was intended to further their commitment to the open-source community.