Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs provides cloud-based observability software for monitoring applications and systems, used by over 7,000 customers including Microsoft and Salesforce. The company has raised $1.1 billion in funding and employs nearly 1,900 people.
The growth story
Grafana Labs grew from 410 to 1,899 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $1.1B along the way, most recently a Series E in March 2026.
About
Grafana Labs sells a managed platform that helps companies monitor and analyze their software systems and AI operations. Its tools are used by large enterprises to maintain application reliability and performance.
The company has scaled rapidly, reaching a $1.1 billion funding total through its Series E round. With nearly 1,900 employees, Grafana Labs has built a substantial workforce to support its growing customer base of over 7,000 organizations.
Founders and leadership
Sales is Grafana Labs' largest function with 255 employees, indicating a strong focus on customer acquisition and growth. The company's leadership team is based in New York, where it was founded in 2014.
The Grafana Labs org chart
Joe McManus (Chief Information Security Officer) leads 59 mapped leaders with 9 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 764 (+16% YoY), Sales 346 (+27% YoY), Arts and Design 137 (+25% YoY), Information Technology 112 (+10% YoY), Business Development 87 (+6% YoY), Human Resources 60 (+9% YoY).
Talent flow
Grafana Labs hires heavily from competing monitoring platforms, with MongoDB, Datadog, and New Relic being its top talent sources. Alumni frequently move to other tech companies, with ClickHouse, Cognition, and SpaceXAI being common destinations.
Most common previous employers of Grafana Labs staff: MongoDB (51), Datadog (33), New Relic (28), AppDynamics (27), Oracle (26), Splunk (23). Former Grafana Labs employees most often moved to ClickHouse (14), Cognition (11), SpaceXAI (11), Datadog (10), Google (10), Postman (9).
Alumni worth knowing
The Grafana Labs mafia
Grafana Labs alumni have founded 17 companies, including Archestra.AI (3 founders, 11 staff) and Evantic Capital (1 founder, 14 staff). These startups span AI, design, and financial technology sectors.
19Chris Welch, was Regional Vice President, Greater New York City until 2024Matt Miller, was Member, Board of Directors until 2025Matvey Kukuy, was Director of Engineering until 2024Joey Orlando, was Engineering Manager until 2025Ildar Iskhakov, was Principal Engineer (Director) until 2025Juraci Paixão Kröhling, was Principal Engineer until 2024
Justin Freels, was User Success until 2024
Tyler Andrews, was GTM - Success until 2025
Devin Halperin, was Principal Solutions Engineer until 2024
Georgiy Mogelashvili, was Engineering Manager until 2024
Diana Payton, was Technical Documentation Lead until 2021
Chloe Phillips, was Strategic Channel Manager, NEMEA until 2025
Monika Tsimbalov, MSOD, was Senior Talent Development Partner until 2026
Matthew Aylard, was Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering until 2026
Derek Cadzow, was Manager, Technical Writing until 2025
Alix Dehaze, was Senior enterprise account executive 🇫🇷🇨🇭 until 2026
Rahul Malik, was Senior Enterprise Account Executive until 2025
Mahesh Menon, was Director, Finance & Strategy until 2024Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 33% direct, 51% search, 2% social, 0% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Grafana Labs: Python (Programming Language) (507), Leadership (504), JavaScript (486), SQL (448), Linux (416), Microsoft Office (411), Java (404), Git (404).
Where the team actually sits
Grafana Labs people are concentrated in California, United States (43), England, United Kingdom (31), Texas, United States (26), San Francisco Bay Area (22).
Search footprint
Grafana Labs attracts about 52,120 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $545K a month if bought through ads. It gained 9,268 ranking keywords and lost 6,626 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 4.20 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.80 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.90 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 4.30 / 5
Frequently asked
Grafana Labs has 1,899 employees as of September 2026.
Grafana Labs has raised $1.1B in total, most recently a Series E round in March 2026.
Grafana Labs was founded in 2014 by Raj Dutt.
Joe McManus (Chief Information Security Officer) sits at the top of Grafana Labs's reporting structure, with 9 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Grafana Labs staff are MongoDB (51 people), Datadog (33 people), New Relic (28 people).
Former Grafana Labs employees most often move to ClickHouse (14), Cognition (11), SpaceXAI (11).
At least 17 companies have a founder who previously worked at Grafana Labs, including Design Alternatives, Evantic Capital, Archestra.AI.
Grafana Labs attracts about 52,120 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $545K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Grafana Labs staff are Python (Programming Language), Leadership, JavaScript, SQL, Linux.
Grafana Labs staff are concentrated in California, United States (43), England, United Kingdom (31), Texas, United States (26).
Grafana Labs has about 764 people in Engineering, up 16% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Grafana Labs has about 346 people in Sales, up 27% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 587 current and 682 former Grafana Labs profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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