# Grafana

Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform that brings metrics, logs, traces, profiles and business data into one place, built on open standards such as OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It includes Grafana Assistant for AI-driven questions and dashboards, Investigations for root-cause analysis, and Adaptive Telemetry for reducing telemetry cost. Grafana, the open source dashboarding tool that the company started from, remains its core visualization layer.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/grafana · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Founded: 2014
- Headquarters: New York, NY
- Employees: 1,001–5,000
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Series E
- Deployment: Fully managed Grafana Cloud on Public Cloud, Federal Cloud or Bring Your Own Cloud, plus self-managed Grafana Enterprise
- Best for: Teams that want open-standard observability without lock-in, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises
- Compliance: FedRAMP, NATSEC100, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, ISO 27001, CSA STAR

## Products

- Grafana Cloud: Fully managed observability platform unifying metrics, logs, traces, profiles and business data.
- Grafana: Open source dashboarding and data visualization tool, created in 2013.
- Grafana Enterprise: Self-managed commercial edition of Grafana.
- Grafana Assistant: AI agent embedded in Grafana Cloud for questions, dashboards and automated routine work.
- Investigations: Agent-powered root-cause investigations across metrics, logs, traces and profiles.
- Adaptive Telemetry: Suite that identifies worthwhile telemetry and aggregates the rest to reduce cost.
- Agent Observability: Tracing, evaluation and guardrails for AI agents and LLM applications in production.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 2 of 45 | 47.8 | 58 |
| Business Intelligence | 44 of 47 | 0.0 | 0 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 57.0 | 85.2% |
| google_ai_mode | 43.1 | 70.4% |
| perplexity | 43.1 | 59.3% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Grafana AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/grafana, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).