
Grafana Labs, the open observability cloud, has been ranked #13 on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100, marking its fifth consecutive year on the prestigious list of top private cloud companies. The recognition, announced on September 3, 2025, highlights Grafana Labs’ growth, open-source leadership, and AI-driven innovation in observability.
Grafana Labs ranked #13 on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100, fifth year in a row.
Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms.
Serves over 7,000 companies, including Bloomberg and Salesforce.
Grafana Cloud unifies visibility with AI-powered solutions for reliability.
Reached $250M in annualized revenue in 2024, with 25M+ users globally.
Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, and others, with $660M raised.
The Forbes Cloud 100, published in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners, recognizes Grafana Labs for its role in addressing the mission-critical need for observability in AI-driven architectures. Richard Nieva, Forbes editor, noted, “Our honorees highlight the massive sea change that AI has brought to the enterprise, with sky-high growth and valuations.” Grafana Labs’ platform supports over 7,000 organizations, from startups to Fortune 500s, in unifying data for faster resolution and reliability.
Grafana Cloud, the company’s fully managed observability platform, integrates scalable metrics (Mimir), logs (Loki), and traces (Tempo), enhanced by AI features like Adaptive Metrics for cost optimization. Anthony Woods, Co-founder, stated, “We’ve introduced groundbreaking AI capabilities, helped users optimize observability costs, and continued to scale Grafana Cloud to meet the needs of some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations.”
In addition to its #13 ranking on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100, Grafana Labs was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, recognized for its Completeness of Vision. With over 25 million users and 5,000+ customers, including Citigroup and Dell Technologies, the company has grown to $250M in annualized revenue in 2024, fueled by a $270M funding round.
Grafana Labs’ open-source roots and composable observability stack, backed by investors like Sequoia and Coatue, position it as a leader in the $600B cloud market. Its focus on cost-effective, AI-driven solutions ensures it meets the evolving needs of enterprises navigating complex digital systems.
Grafana Labs is the open observability cloud helping organizations understand their systems at scale and turn data into action. With more than 25 million users and over 5,000 customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, Grafana Labs offers a composable observability stack built around Grafana, the world’s most popular open-source technology for dashboards and visualization; scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo); and a rich ecosystem of data source plugins. Grafana Cloud, the company’s fully managed observability offering, includes turnkey solutions for Kubernetes and infrastructure monitoring, application observability, incident response, load testing, and more.