[tlynchpin]

RIP grafana

^^ this is not a good contribution to HN, not much substance. (edit)

Many people who use Grafana will see this news and will stop planning on using Grafana and start planning on doing something else. That has nothing to do with Grafana, that is a common reaction to AGPL.

In theory, AGPL is fine under circumstances blahblahblah. In common practice in commercial settings (in my experience), GPL is poison and AGPL is radioactive poison.

[mtmail]

I'd say a SaaS competitor build on top of graphana is more affected https://www.hostedgraphite.com/

[pritambaral]

Unless they were making money based on their proprietary modifications to Grafana, Loki, or Tempo, they aren't affected much beyond being required to publish links to the source code.

If, however, they _were_ making money off of proprietary modifications, and they wanted to keep such modifications proprietary, they now have the choice to fork Grafana (and Loki and Tempo respectively) as of a pre-AGPL version.