Grafana Labs
✓ Verified by EU AltsOpen-source observability platform for metrics, logs and traces — a Swedish alternative to Datadog.
Overview
Grafana Labs is a Stockholm, Sweden-based European company building developer tools, monitoring, and open source software since 2014. Despite its EU base, EU Alts has verified that Grafana Labs independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, and hosts customer data with AWS / Google Cloud (Grafana Cloud) in Multiple global regions including EU, underlying providers are US-owned, so it may still fall under the reach of the US CLOUD Act — worth weighing against GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers on this specific point.
Why European teams pick Grafana Labs
Teams in Europe still consider Grafana Labs for its developer tools product and Sweden presence, operating since 2014, but unlike a fully EU-owned provider, Grafana Labs independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, and hosts customer data with AWS / Google Cloud (Grafana Cloud) in Multiple global regions including EU, underlying providers are US-owned — so it does not fully avoid US CLOUD Act exposure the way some other alternatives to GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers do.
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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
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Ownership
- Independently owned (United States)
- Hosting
- AWS / Google Cloud (Grafana Cloud), Multiple global regions including EU, underlying providers are US-owned
- CLOUD Act
- Exposed
- Company size
- 200+ employees
Categories
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Frequently asked questions
What is Grafana Labs?
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.
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 GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers.
Is Grafana Labs a good European developer tools alternative?
Grafana Labs is a fit for European businesses evaluating developer tools options where data residency and GDPR alignment matter — typical buyers include EU-based SaaS teams, public-sector projects, regulated industries (healthcare, finance, legal), and any organisation that needs to demonstrate that customer data does not leave the EU. It also overlaps with monitoring and open source use cases.
Is Grafana Labs GDPR compliant?
Grafana Labs is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and processes user data under the GDPR by default. Customer data processing is supervised by Sweden's data protection authority, the Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY). However, EU Alts has verified that Grafana Labs independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, and hosts customer data with AWS / Google Cloud (Grafana Cloud) in Multiple global regions including EU, underlying providers are US-owned, which means — unlike a fully EU-owned provider — it may still be reachable under the US CLOUD Act, similar to GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers in that respect.
How do teams switch from GitHub to Grafana Labs?
Teams evaluating a move from GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers to Grafana Labs should note: Grafana Labs independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, and hosts customer data with AWS / Google Cloud (Grafana Cloud) in Multiple global regions including EU, underlying providers are US-owned, so this switch narrows but may not fully close the US CLOUD Act gap. Weigh that against the developer tools workflow fit before treating it as a complete Schrems II fix.
Where is Grafana Labs based?
Grafana Labs is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The company was founded in 2014. Its main website is https://grafana.com.