Observability software startup Grafana Labs Inc. is bundling its monitoring, visualization and metric analytics tools into a single suite called Grafana Enterprise Stack that’s being made available today.

Grafana Labs is the maker of Grafana, a popular open-source tool (pictured) that’s used to track the health of information technology infrastructure. The company is also the lead developer of several other open-source projects, including Loki for log analytics, Prometheus for monitoring Kubernetes deployments and Cortex, a faster and more scalable version of Prometheus. Together they serve as the foundation of the other tools it offers.

Observability platforms such as Grafana are used to monitor applications and their environments by pulling data from logs, metrics, traces and events. Operators can then use this data to identify the root cause of any issues that crop up and resolve them quickly.

The new Grafana Enterprise Stack is said to bundle the enterprise version of the Grafana platform with Enterprise Metrics for Prometheus-as-a-service and a brand new product called Enterprise Logs, which is a scalable self-hosted log aggregation tool based on Grafana Loki. Enterprise Logs uses Loki’s unique log indexing technique to enable greater scalability and cost efficiency improvements with ap[application environments, the company said.

“Grafana Enterprise Logs combines all the best features of the Loki open source project with the support and scalability that Grafana Labs customers expect,” said Grafana co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Anthony Woods.

The company has added what it says are some critical new features to Grafana Enterprise Stack that extend the platform’s functionality for more mature organizations. For example, it adds data sources for important commercial tools such as Splunk, New Relic, MongoDB, ServiceNow, Oracle and Snowflake, which are widely used by larger enterprises. The new release also comes with better reporting tools and enhanced authentication and security, Grafana said.

“Grafana Enterprise Stack already includes enterprise plugins, enhanced security and reporting that modern organizations are looking for, and the addition of Enterprise Logs brings powerful log aggregation capabilities and even more cost efficiency to the platform.”

With today’s announcement, Grafana Labs is drawing its battle lines in an increasingly competitive observability market. It faces competition from ambitious startups such as Observe Inc., which recently exited stealth mode with $35 million in funding, as well as more established firms such as Splunk Inc. and New Relic Inc., which recently announced major updates of their own.

Grafana claims a solid presence already, though, with more than 1,000 customers said to be using the Grafana platform, including the likes of eBay Inc., PayPal Inc., Sony Corp. and JP Morgan Chase.

Constellation Research Inc. analyst Holger Mueller said Grafana Enterprise Stack is the latest example of how the observability software space is rapidly moving to “ready to use environments” that are delivered as a software-as-a-service.

“This trend is positive for enterprises as it allows them to focus more on the observability and management of their next generations applications, instead of worrying about the plumbing to get observability going in the first place,” Mueller said.

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