Some startup companies toil away invisibly for years. Though their products o en have mission-critical value for users, they may be so far behind the scenes that they never get the glory. That’s not the case for Grafana, an open source so ware project for visualizing and analyzing metrics. And given what the platform does and how it looks, it’s easy to see why it has taken the spotlight in this data-driven world. “It’s such a visual and appealing way to present data, and you can get at-a-glance insight from it,” says Torkel Ödegaard, the creator and lead developer of Grafana, and co-founder of Grafana Labs. “Once a couple of people within a company start using it, they put the dashboards up on a TV or big screen, and people who walk by become intrigued by it.” The Grafana dashboar

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