Somerford and Grafana Announce Partnership to Deliver Enhanced Observability Solutions

Wednesday, 1st October 2025

Somerford Associates, a leading Technology Consultancy specialising in Digital Transformation, and Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today announced a go-to-market partnership. This collaboration will empower organisations to gain deeper insights from their data, optimise system performance, and accelerate digital transformation.

The partnership combines Somerford Associates’ deep expertise in cloud architecture, data management, and professional services with Grafana Labs’ fully managed observability platform, Grafana Cloud. Together, they will offer a comprehensive platform that makes it easier for businesses to monitor, analyse, and visualise data at scale.

Grafana Cloud: Observability Platform

Grafana Cloud allows users to create customisable dashboards, configure powerful alerts, and explore data in real time without the burden of maintaining infrastructure. Grafana Cloud integrates logs, metrics, traces, profiles, and even front-end user experience monitoring into a single AI-powered platform, giving teams a true “single pane of glass” for observability. With built-in security, enterprise-grade SLAs, and seamless integrations with popular cloud services and third-party tools, Grafana Cloud helps organisations accelerate adoption, reduce operational overhead, and focus on solving business problems rather than managing monitoring systems.

With this partnership, Somerford Associates will provide:

Consulting and Implementation: Expert guidance on designing and implementing a Grafana-based observability strategy tailored to specific business needs.
Integration Services: Seamless integration of Grafana Cloud with existing data sources and IT infrastructure.
Managed Services: Ongoing support and maintenance to ensure the Grafana Cloud platform is always optimised and up-to-date.
Training and Enablement: Workshops and training sessions to help teams get the most out of their investment.

We are thrilled to partner with Grafana Labs to bring their industry-leading observability platform to our customers. In today's complex IT environments, having a unified view of your data is critical. Grafana Cloud provides the flexibility and scalability our clients need to make data-driven decisions and stay ahead of the curve. This partnership will allow us to deliver a complete observability solution, from initial design and implementation to ongoing support and optimisation.

Andy Davies, Company Director at Somerford Associates

We are excited to work with Somerford Associates, a company that shares our commitment to empowering organisations with better data insights. Their expertise in professional services and their customer-centric approach make them an ideal partner to help us expand the adoption of Grafana Cloud. This collaboration will help more businesses harness the power of their data to drive innovation and improve operational efficiency.

Tom Kennedy, Senior Director, Channel Sales at Grafana Labs

About Somerford Associates

Somerford Associates is a top-tier, award-winning partner with experience in assisting organisations in the public and private sectors in their adoption of cloud services and technologies securely, whilst understanding the continued challenges of a complex hybrid environment. We have grown a reputation as a trusted pair of hands helping organisations decipher the ‘art of the possible’ and deliver scalable solutions with output-driven objectives. For more information, click here.

About Grafana

Grafana Labs delivers the open observability cloud, founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale, enabling organisations to see, understand, and act on all their disparate data so they can move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 25 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimise their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,400+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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