# User base for Grafana

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/user-base-for-grafana/4296>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [December 12, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/user-base-for-grafana/4296 "2017-12-12T17:03:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@tgg](https://community.grafana.com/u/tgg)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/user-base-for-grafana/4296/1 "2017-12-12T17:03:07Z")

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Curious…how big a user base does Grafana currently have? I guess it is tricky to quantify based on non-Grafanacloud uses, unless you can count a download figure?

What about Grafana Cloud usage, is that a figure accessible by the public?

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**Author:** ![daniellee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/daniellee/32/41_2.png) [@daniellee](https://community.grafana.com/u/daniellee)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/user-base-for-grafana/4296/2 "2017-12-12T17:15:40Z")

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Being an open source project we don’t have a lot of stats but Grafana has a call home feature (once a day) that sends some basic, anonymous stats. Lots of people turn it off though and it won’t work if the Grafana instance is installed behind a company firewall. GrafanaCloud stats are included in these stats.

Grafana has seen huge growth during the last year and there are \> 120000 Grafana instances running and \> 1.2 million users. We think that those numbers might actually be 20 - 30% higher but we don’t know for sure.

Our stats dashboards are available on the play site:

- Grafana installs the last 400 days: [http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/stats-installs?orgId=1](http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/stats-installs?orgId=1)
- Grafana stats: [http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/stats?refresh=30m&orgId=1](http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/stats?refresh=30m&orgId=1)
- User count last year: [http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/grafana-trend?orgId=1&from=now-1y&to=now](http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/grafana-trend?orgId=1&from=now-1y&to=now)

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**Author:** ![tgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@tgg](https://community.grafana.com/u/tgg)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/user-base-for-grafana/4296/3 "2017-12-12T17:32:30Z")

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Awesome. Thank you, as always.

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**Author:** ![anon80964540](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@anon80964540](https://community.grafana.com/u/anon80964540)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/user-base-for-grafana/4296/4 "2021-01-13T16:39:14Z")

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