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Grafana Labs
Company blog · grafana.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Grafana Labs is the company blog at grafana.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2017, 273 different Hacker News readers have linked it 472 times, most often “Grafana: From Dashboards to Centralized Observability”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Mostly cited as the homepage or product page for Grafana, Loki and Prometheus tools, and in hiring posts. Docs and blog pages are cited on AGPL relicensing, Loki, alerting and the 8.0 release.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Grafana: From Dashboards to Centralized Observability18 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2017-03-17
- /oss/loki/9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-01-03
- /blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relicensing/6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-04-20
- /5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-03-14
- How to use Prometheus to efficiently detect anomalies at scale4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-06
- Loki: Prometheus-inspired logging for cloud natives4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-12-12
- Grafana Tempo is a high volume, distributed tracing back end4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-10-30
- Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv34 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-20
- Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-03-30
- /products/oncall/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-13
What Hacker News says?
https://grafana.com/oss/loki/
Comment linking /oss/loki/
on “Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing”Submitted How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years as a story · 790 points
HN discussionhttps://grafana.com/ for the graphs and https://www.draw.io/ and http://www.fiftythree.com/ for the diagrams.
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on “How We Built r/Place”Submitted Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 as a story · 710 points
HN discussionhttps://grafana.com/
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Grafana releases OnCall open source project as a story · 383 points
HN discussion> we of course have no idea what actually happened since the default logging is only enabled during development Wait, if you have issues with logging, why don’t you set up opentelemetry? It’s really easy to add into a project [1], and if you don’t want to manage it, you can easily find some cost efficient solutions like Grafana Labs [2]. [1]: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/guides/open-telemetry [2]: https://grafana.com/
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on “Next.js is infuriating”Submitted Grafana 7.0 as a story · 345 points
HN discussionIt's Grafana [0], backed by Prometheus [1]. [0]: https://grafana.com/ [1]: https://prometheus.io/
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on “GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code”Submitted Grafana Labs raises $24M as a story · 293 points
HN discussionGrafana https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic... RethinkDB http://web.archive.org/web/20161003231505/https://rethinkdb.... BerkeleyDB http://web.archive.org/web/20170211004058/http://www.infowor... MongoDB tried the shakedown but I guess it didn't work http://web.archive.org/web/20240202161503/https://www.mongod...
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on “Elasticsearch is open source, again”Submitted Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus as a story · 262 points
HN discussionI've recently been pondering whether to create a log receiver that will produce Prometheus metrics as well as logs for Loki. Why? Because there are several open source projects that if joined up in a relatively simple way would provide a full RUM / Analytics solution. For collecting the analytics: Akamai Boomerang, which is a descendant of Yahoo tooling https://github.com/akamai/boomerang and BSD licensed Then inser…
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on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted Grafana Incident: Smart incident management for your teams as a story · 250 points
HN discussionI'll give you an example of what I mean. Let's look at the manual on variables, found at this URL: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/variables/ . Variables are shown at the top of the screen. You would assume that adding a new variable would involve a UI element placed in proximity to the existing variables. However, that's not the case at all. None of the sections in the manual would even tell you where you n…
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on “What are your most used self-hosted applications?”Submitted Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale as a story · 240 points
HN discussionYeah, that's pretty speculative to assume what would have been, but forking and improving/shifting direction of kibana would have been definitively possible from a license POV. Their FAQ even says: > I asked Torkel, and he said that If Kibana had been an AGPL project, Grafana would likely have been AGPL from day one. https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic...
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on “Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3”Submitted Grafana Tempo, a scalable distributed tracing system as a story · 233 points
HN discussionthey talk about Kibana in their Q&A: https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic...
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on “Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3”Submitted Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool as a story · 232 points
HN discussionI'm glad you were able to find a FOSS license that's able to support your business. I think grafana lab's use of AGPL will help encourage its adoption by other businesses wanting to make money in free software as well. For other's who are interested, here's a faq from grafana including a discussion about "Why AGPL and not SSPL?": https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic...
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on “Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3”Submitted Can Grafana run Doom? as a story · 230 points
HN discussionThere's a lot of weird assumptions in this thread that this is some sort of strike against Amazon/AWS. It's not. AWS's managed grafana is built in partnership with grafana labs, and this license change won't affect it. From Grafana: "AWS is a strategic partner, and given the commercial relationship AWS has with us for AMG, AWS and their AMG customers are not impacted by this change. We hope that other XaaS providers…
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on “Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3”Submitted Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes as a story · 223 points
HN discussion"AWS is a strategic partner, and given the commercial relationship AWS has with us for AMG, AWS and their AMG customers are not impacted by this change. We hope that other XaaS providers follow AWS’s lead in working with open source software companies in similarly sustainable ways." https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic...
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on “Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3”Submitted How to monitor your local weather with Grafana as a story · 202 points
HN discussionLooks like there were two blog posts. This QA session with the CEO is also interesting. https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic...
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on “Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3”Submitted Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL as a story · 193 points
HN discussionGrafana Labs | Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, UX/UI Designer | REMOTE | ANYWHERE | Full Time Grafana Labs is on a mission to democratise and visualise the world's data, we are deeply connected to the OSS community whilst providing on-prem and cloud software for companies that need them. The software we work on you already know: Grafana, Prometheus, Cortex, Loki, Thanos, and others. Every day we use the…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation as a story · 181 points
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