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Grafana Labs, New York, New York, United States: The Story of Grafana

Company: Grafana Labs
Company Description: Grafana Labs provides an open observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards. Grafana Labs helps companies manage observability strategies with the fully managed Grafana Cloud offering or self-managed Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, metrics, logs, traces, and more.
Nomination Category: Video Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Documentary
2024 Stevie Winner Nomination Title: The Story of Grafana
  1. The date on which this nominated production was first distributed or otherwise made public:

    The first episode was released December 5, 2023 and the final episode was released February 6, 2024.

  2. Briefly describe this entry’s communications objectives and how it met those objectives (up to 200 words):

    Total 116 words used.

     “The Story of Grafana” documentary series uncovers the origin story, technology, community, and future of Grafana, the open and composable observability and data visualization platform.

    A year in the making, “The Story of Grafana” is a four-part documentary that dives into the origin story of Grafana, which started with one engineer who wanted to visualize time series data and grew to become a thriving open source project with a community of more than 20 million users worldwide. The Grafana documentary features more than 20 interviews, including founders Torkel Ödegaard, Raj Dutt and Anthony Woods; early Grafana engineers; and other voices from across the global open source community who have made contributions and continue to shape Grafana.

  3. Optionally you may list the creative and production credits for your nominated production - the people who helped to bring it to life: Advertising Agency/City: Client: Art Director: Cinematographer: Creative Director: Designer: Director: Illustrator/City: Music Producer/City: Photographer/City: Printer/City: Producer: Production Company/City: Programmer: Writer: Web Development Firm/City:

    Collins Pace, Video Producer at Grafana Labs

    Julie Dam, Senior Director, Content & Communications at Grafana Labs

    Michelle Tan, Senior Manager, Content at Grafana Labs

    Erik Hageman, Creative Director at Grafana Labs

Attachments/Videos/Links:
The Story of Grafana
URL The Story of Grafana | Episode 1: Democratize Metrics | Grafana Documentary
URL The Story of Grafana | Episode 2: Community | Grafana Documentary
URL The Story of Grafana | Episode 3: Open (Source) for Business | Grafana Documentary
URL The Story of Grafana | Episode 4: Evolution | Grafana Documentary