Data visualization platform developers grafana , Loki and distributed trace backend TEMPO . Plugins, agents and some libraries will continue to be supplied under the APACHE 2.0 license.
Interestingly, some users celebrate that one of the reasons for the success of the GRAFANA project, at the initial stage trying to optimize the interface of the already existing product Kibana To visualize data varying in time and get away from binding to the ElasticSearch repository, there was a choice of a more permissive license to code. Over time, Grafana developers have been formed by Grafana Labs, which began promoting commercial products, such a cloud system Grafana Cloud and the commercial solution Grafana Enterprise Stack.
The decision to change the license was made to resist afloat and withstand competition with providers who do not participate in the development, but using the modified Grafana options in their products. Unlike the fundamental measures taken by such projects as Elasticsearch, Redis, Mongodb, Timescale and Cockroach, who have passed on a license that is not open, Grafana Labs tried to make a decision balancing between the interests of the community and business. Transition to agplv3, According to Grafana Labs, is optimal By the decision: on the one hand, AGPLv3 corresponds to the criteria for free and open licenses, and on the other – does not allow parasitize on open projects.