The One Time Hindsight is 2019: A Look Back at Our Year

In 2019, Grafana Labs experienced significant growth and achievements, including celebrating its fifth anniversary and more than doubling active installations of Grafana to 482,000. The team expanded from 37 to 105 members across 22 countries, and the company raised $24 million in Series A funding to enhance its vision of an open, composable observability platform. Notable additions to the team included key roles such as Douglas Hanna as COO, Dave Kranowitz as VP of Global Sales, and Ryan McKinley as VP of Applications. The company also marked the general availability of Loki with version 1.0.0, engaged in 28 speaking events including keynotes and talks at KubeCon, and published 177 blog articles. Additionally, Grafana Labs introduced sustainable swag through carbon offsets at prominent industry events like PromCon, KubeCon NA, and AWS re:Invent, setting a positive tone for the coming year.

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