Grafana Labs Named to Forbes Cloud 100 for Fifth Consecutive Year

September 03, 2025 at 11:17 AM EDT

Recognition highlights Grafana Labs’ business growth, open source leadership, and AI-driven innovation across the observability stack

Grafana Labs, the open observability cloud, today announced it has been ranked number 13 on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners. This marks Grafana Labs’ fifth consecutive year on the list.

“For the last decade, the Forbes Cloud 100 list has recognized the most innovative private cloud companies in the world, and this year’s standouts are among the most impressive we’ve ever seen,” said Richard Nieva, the Forbes editor of the Cloud 100. “Our honorees highlight the massive sea change that AI has brought to the enterprise, with sky-high growth and valuations.”

This follows another recognition: Grafana Labs was recently named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, recognized as the furthest for Completeness of Vision for Grafana Cloud.

As organizations race to optimize digital experiences and adopt AI-driven architectures, observability has become mission-critical. More than 7,000 companies – from startups to Fortune 500s – rely on Grafana Labs to see, understand, and act on any data from anywhere, across complex systems. Grafana Cloud, the company’s fully managed open observability cloud, helps by providing unified visibility and AI-powered solutions that drive greater reliability and faster time to resolution.

“Being named to the Cloud 100 for the fifth year in a row is a reflection of the incredible pace of innovation at Grafana Labs and the trust we’ve earned from our growing customer base,” said Anthony Woods, Co-founder, Grafana Labs. “In the past year alone, we’ve introduced groundbreaking AI capabilities, helped users optimize observability costs to ensure they’re getting the most value from their tooling, and continued to scale Grafana Cloud to meet the needs of some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. We’re proud to build a platform that’s not only open and flexible, but purpose-built to solve the problems modern teams face today.”

See the full 2025 Cloud 100 list at: https://www.forbes.com/cloud100

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About Grafana Labs

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. Grafana Labs is backed by leading investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, GIC, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, and CapitalG. Follow Grafana Labs on LinkedIn and Twitter or visit grafana.com.