Agenda
Capacity for this event is quite limited. Sign up now to choose the hands-on workshop that’s right for you, secure your seat for the inspirational live keynote, and guarantee access to every technical deep dive session.
Day 1
14 November 2023
Registration & breakfast for workshop attendees
Registration for all workshop attendees (separate ticket required to attend workshops) opens at 8:00. Enjoy a hosted breakfast and network with other workshop attendees.
Introduction to service level objectives workshop
Master the basics of service level objectives (SLOs) and see exactly how to start creating your own. Get a brief history of SLOs and an introduction to everything from error budgets to OSS tooling for SLOs, then practise creating and importing your own in Grafana Cloud.
*Separate ticket required to attend this workshop.*
- Ward Bekker, Senior Principal Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Kamel Djoudi, Senior Solutions Engineer | France, Grafana Labs
- Tom Donohue, Senior Field Engineer, Grafana Labs
Introduction to logging with Grafana Loki workshop
Get insider tips and best practices for creating Grafana dashboards with Loki. Learn how to build your own dashboard, including setting up your data sources and customising visualisations. Plus: Find out how you can correlate logs, metrics, and traces in Grafana to reduce MTTR.
*Separate ticket required to attend this workshop.*
- Alex Kirtley-Close, Principal Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Abdi Hassan, Senior Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Roel Beun, Senior Solutions Engineer , Grafana Labs
Introduction to performance testing with Grafana k6 workshop
Learn all the basics of load and performance testing with Grafana k6 and find out exactly how to start creating your own tests.
*Separate ticket required to attend this workshop.*
- Liam Oddell, Senior Solutions Engineer , Grafana Labs
- Mattias Segerdahl, Principal Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Chris Wilkes, Senior Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
Lunch & Expo for all conference attendees
Registration for all conference attendees opens at 12:00. Enjoy a hosted lunch and network with other attendees. Explore the Expo and chat live with Grafana Labs experts.
Opening keynote
Grafana ObservabilityCON 2023 kicks off in London with a keynote featuring CEO/Co-founder Raj Dutt, CTO Tom Wilkie, and members of the Grafana Labs engineering team. Come for the latest developments in the open and composable LGTM (Loki-Grafana-Tempo-Mimir) observability stack, and stay for some exciting announcements!
- Raj Dutt, CEO, Co-Founder, Grafana Labs
- Tom Wilkie, Chief Technology Officer, Grafana Labs
- Myrle Krantz, Engineering Director, Grafana Labs
- Marc Chipouras, Senior Director of Engineering, Grafana Labs
With OpenTelemetry, ComplyAdvantage overhauled its observability (twice)
ComplyAdvantage, which provides compliance and risk management tools, has overhauled its observability platform twice in two years, first moving from on-prem Grafana OSS to Datadog, and then migrating from Datadog to Grafana Cloud. Join Principal SRE Adam Wilson to hear how his team’s approach to observability evolved, and how their increased OTel usage made it possible to migrate twice — and to get the most out of Grafana Cloud for metrics, logs, traces, Kubernetes monitoring, and more.
- Adam Wilson, Principal SRE, ComplyAdvantage
Unify your application and infrastructure observability
In cloud native environments, finding and resolving issues across services and between application and infrastructure dependencies can be challenging. In this session, learn about Grafana Cloud's latest capabilities for correlating application and infrastructure observability. You will hear how we unify and contextualise service relationships and application and infrastructure dependencies to help you resolve problems faster.
- Myrle Krantz, Engineering Director, Grafana Labs
- Bogdan Matei, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
Afternoon break
User success story
Learn how a user like you leveraged Grafana observability tools to overcome obstacles and transform operations at their organisation.
Manage rising metrics and logging costs with Grafana Cloud
Are your SRE and platform teams under pressure to ingest fewer metrics and logs in the name of cost savings? Reducing costs does not have to mean reduced observability. In this session, we will walk through the cost management features in Grafana Cloud that allow you to analyse, attribute, monitor, and optimise your metrics and logs usage – and lower costs – without compromising your observability strategy.
- Jen Villa, Senior Group Product Manager, Grafana Labs
- Mauro Stettler, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
Welcome reception
Close out the first day of ObservabilityCON in high spirits! Enjoy delicious food, specialty drinks, and a few fun surprises – all in the excellent company of your fellow conference attendees.
Day 2
15 November 2023
Registration & breakfast
Enjoy a hosted breakfast and network with other conference attendees
Panel: What we've learned building observability at massive scale
Join us for an in-depth conversation with a panel of observability leaders. They'll share stories about their organisations' observability journeys, their perspectives on scaling observability across an enterprise, and their opinions on the current trends in the space.
Building scalable OSS observability with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope
Get the latest news about the scalability and performance of the open source telemetry backends that make up the Grafana LGTM Stack: Grafana Mimir for Prometheus metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, and Grafana Tempo for traces. Learn about our newest OSS database, Grafana Pyroscope for continuous profiling, which provides insights into resource usage and latency down to the code level. Finally, find out how to correlate profiles with metrics, logs, and traces for a more holistic view of system health and performance.
- Ryan Perry, Engineering Director, Grafana Labs
- Mario Rodriguez, Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Ed Welch, Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Vlad Diachenko, Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
Morning break
Actian & Grafana Cloud: The search for a customisable observability tool
Over the past few years, Actian has shifted from offering a solely on-premises data integration, management, and analytics product to supporting hybrid and multi-cloud environments as well. To keep up, the team needed a customisable observability tool, and found it in Grafana Cloud. Lead Cloud Operations Engineer Suleyman Kutlu and SRE Padmaja Varre will share their journey, starting with metrics and logs, and venturing into load testing, frontend observability, IRM, and more.
- Suleyman Kutlu, Lead Cloud Operations Engineer , Actian
- Padmaja Varre, SRE, Actian
Prioritise critical resources with SLO-driven IRM
A majority of respondents in our [Observability Survey](/observability-survey-2023/) said they were using SLOs or moving in that direction. For good reason: By highlighting the most critical error budget burndown, service level objectives (SLOs) can help you prioritise performance issues based on business impact. In this session, we will walk through how Grafana Cloud's integrated SLO and Incident Response Management capabilities can help you identify the most important issues and resolve them quickly.
- Josh Abreu Mesa, Principal Software Engineer I, Grafana Labs
- Reem Tariq, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
User success story
Learn how a user like you leveraged Grafana observability tools to overcome obstacles and transform operations at their organisation.
Lunch & expo
Enjoy a hosted lunch and network with other attendees. Explore the Expo and chat live with Grafana Labs experts.
Afternoon break
User success story
Learn how a user like you leveraged Grafana observability tools to overcome obstacles and transform operations at their organisation.
AI/ML + open source observability
At Grafana Labs, we’re excited about the role AI/ML can have in bridging the gap between humans and the beyond-human scale of observability data we work with every day. In this session, you'll learn about the features leveraging AI/ML that we've already released, what's next, and what the future could hold. We'll also talk about our big tent, open source approach to enabling the community to use AI/ML to power up the data sources, visualisations, and flows that you build into Grafana everywhere.
- Yasir Ekinci, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Ben Sully, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
User success story
Learn how a user like you leveraged Grafana observability tools to overcome obstacles and transform operations at their organisation.
User-centred observability: load testing, real user monitoring, and synthetics
Understanding your end users' experience with your applications and services is critical, and there are a variety of tools to help. But there are also a number of different use cases: During development or in production? Simulate user behaviour or monitor real user behaviour? What should you use and when? In this session, we will explore when and how to apply load testing, synthetic monitoring, and real user monitoring to gain insights into the end user experience of your critical applications.
- Mark Meier, Senior Product Manager, Grafana Labs
Closing reception
Enjoy light appetisers and beverages, network with other attendees, and explore the Expo and chat live with Grafana Labs experts.
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