[jchw]

Understandable critique, but I absolutely love a lot of Grafana’s redundant offerings. For example, operationally speaking it is drastically simpler to set up a scalable Grafana Tempo instance than Jaeger, in my opinion. Grafana offering competent object storage backends for their software has made them dramatically easier to operate and maintain.

That’s also another thing: a decent amount of Grafana software (Mimir, Loki, Tempo…) are OSS, so while they definitely are using those softwares in their paid offering, they absolutely still benefit OSS users. I’m messing with Tempo for telemetry in my (admittedly embarrassingly weak) home lab endeavors and it’s pretty cool.