Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, October 17th.

Today on Forbes, Grafana Labs is cleaning up on the vibe coding boom.

When NVIDIA, the $4 trillion juggernaut that makes the GPU chips undergirding the AI frenzy,

needs to monitor its systems for threats and suspicious

activity, it turns to a small startup named Grafana Labs to help its scour access logs

and analyze vulnerabilities. And the chipmaker is in alone. Uber, Anthropic, and Adobe are among

the other giants tapping Grafana's tools,

like a dashboard for operations across an entire business.

Last month, $6 billion valued Grafana, known as an observability platform, said it hit $400 million

in annualized revenue.

CEO Raj Dutt told Forbes that the uptick in sales has been thanks in part to the growth

of Grafana Cloud, which lets customers use its platform without setting up their own

infrastructure like servers or storage.

The need for good observability services has ballooned in the AI era, especially as vibe

coding from genera of AI models, has become more common.

As people increasingly rely on AI to write code and build products, Dut said it's

become harder to keep track of what's going on under the hood, when it's being done, and

who's doing it. Dutt said, quote,

Software today is starting to look more like a living organism.

It's being built and shipped faster than ever, sometimes sloppily.

That makes it critical to understand how your app is performing in production.

Grafano also said it had completed a tender offer of up to $150 million,

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