Grafana Labs

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Open-source observability platform for metrics, logs and traces — a Swedish alternative to Datadog.

Grafana Labs is under review on EU Alts: our checks indicate its headquarters or ownership may be outside the EU, so it is not currently recommended as a European alternative. This page is kept for reference.

About

Grafana Labs is a Swedish company that develops and maintains the Grafana open-source observability stack — Grafana (dashboards), Loki (log aggregation), Tempo (distributed tracing), and Mimir (metrics) — plus the managed Grafana Cloud service. Originally open-source and community-driven, Grafana has become the de facto standard for infrastructure and application observability. Grafana Cloud offers an EU-hosted region with GDPR-compliant data processing and a signed DPA. The entire stack is open-source and self-hostable on EU infrastructure — a popular choice for teams running Prometheus-based monitoring on Hetzner or OVHcloud. Grafana Labs was founded in Stockholm and retains strong EU engineering roots despite now having a global presence.

Details

Founded: 2014
Headquarters: New York, United States
Ownership: Independently owned (United States)
Hosting: AWS / Google Cloud (Grafana Cloud), Multiple global regions including EU, underlying providers are US-owned
CLOUD Act: Not independently verified
Verified: 2026-07-31
Last checked: 2026-10-14
Company size: 200+ employees

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Frequently asked questions

What does Grafana Labs do?

Grafana Labs is open-source observability platform for metrics, logs and traces — a swedish alternative to datadog. It is listed under developer tools, monitoring, and open source on EU Alts because its core functionality serves teams looking for a European developer tools tool with EU data residency, typically as a switch away from Datadog.

Is Grafana Labs GDPR compliant?

Grafana Labs is listed in New York, United States, but its recorded ownership is based in United States, so EU jurisdiction is not assumed. EU Alts has not independently verified Grafana Labs's exposure to the US CLOUD Act; check the recorded ownership and hosting facts below before relying on it for Schrems II purposes.

Where is Grafana Labs based?

Grafana Labs is headquartered in New York, United States. The company was founded in 2014. Its main website is https://grafana.com.