Grafana Labs and Alibaba Cloud will provide the first Grafana hosting service in China

Author | Bai Yu

Recently, Grafana Labs, a data visualization company, established a core partnership with Alibaba Cloud. The two parties will give full play to their respective strengths to carry out all-round cooperation in observability products, service support, etc., and jointly create Grafana managed services to help companies quickly acquire the observability capabilities of real-time query of various data sources and data visualization. This cooperation is also the first in-depth cooperation between Grafana and cloud vendors in the Asia-Pacific region. Both parties will provide the first Grafana managed service in China.

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With the continuous implementation of cloud-native technologies, data observable technologies for distributed applications and containers, covering from front-end to back-end, from the infrastructure layer to the application layer, have become essential operations and maintenance capabilities for enterprises. With its rich visual kanban, multi-data source access and other features, Grafana has become the de facto standard for observable visualization in the cloud-native era. The "End User Technology Radar" report released by CNCF shows that two-thirds of the respondents choose Grafana and Prometheus as their preferred observable tools.

In order to help global cloud computing users build an observability system based on their own business characteristics, Alibaba Cloud and Grafana have joined hands to create a Grafana managed service that enables users to efficiently analyze and view metrics, logs, and tracking without paying attention to server configuration, software updates, etc. Work effectively reduces the complexity and workload of operation and maintenance, and leverages the powerful cloud native capabilities of Alibaba Cloud to comprehensively improve the security and availability of Grafana.

Raj Dutt, co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs said, “Our goal at Grafana Labs is to ensure that Grafana is available, but this is the most meaningful for our users-whether it’s self-built facilities or in Alibaba. A public cloud platform like cloud. With the help of fully managed services and continuous in-depth cooperation, Alibaba Cloud's massive global users will gain convenience and availability far beyond self-hosting, and use Grafana's leading open source signboard more efficiently and with lower barriers to entry. And observability. Both parties open the door to a whole new market."

Jiang Jiangwei, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud’s Intelligent Basic Products Division, said, “Alibaba Cloud observable products have always been committed to escorting the digital innovation of enterprises. Customers provide complete observability solutions to empower the digital transformation of enterprises. This cooperation with Grafana is not only to create more value for customers, but also to cooperate with open source vendors to promote the further growth of the open source ecosystem. "

Ding Yu, head of Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Application Platform, said, “Grafana, as the de facto standard for open source Kanban and visualization, is recognized and used by many of our users. With in-depth cooperation, users around the world can use their recognized technologies more conveniently and efficiently, and focus more on business development, eliminating the need to focus on basic operation and maintenance work. While Alibaba Cloud is actively contributing to the open source field, it will also Continue to cooperate with more open source vendors and continue to promote the implementation of cloud native and open source in China."

It is reported that the two parties will continue to expand the scope and depth of cooperation in the future to provide enterprises with a richer range of outstanding observability solutions based on Alibaba Cloud, and to solve the operation and maintenance problems of enterprises in the digital economy era.

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack around Grafana, which is a leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Grafana Labs has more than 1,500 customers, including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, eBay, PayPal, and Sony. There are more than 750,000 Grafana active installations worldwide. Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategy through full-stack products. These products can be fully managed through Grafana Cloud or self-managed through Grafana Enterprise stack. Both have extensive enterprise data source plug-ins, dashboard management, alerts, Reporting and security, scalable metrics (Prometheus & Graphite), logging (Grafana Loki) and tracking (Grafana Tempo). Grafana Labs is supported by leading investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, GIC, Sequoia Capital and Coatue.

Alibaba Cloud Grafana service is currently in free public beta. To learn more about Grafana on Alibaba Cloud, please click https://www.aliyun.com/activity/middleware/grafana