GrafanaCON 2025: Register today for our biggest community event of the year!
Smells like teen Grafana spirit.
Seattle is home to Nirvana, the Space Needle, and this year GrafanaCON 2025, which is coming to the Emerald City on May 6-8.
Registration is officially open for GrafanaCON 2025, which means now is the time to secure your spot at our biggest community event of the year. This is your chance to explore the latest updates to Grafana and its extended open source ecosystem, connect with other members of the Grafana OSS community, and so much more.
(P.S. There are only a limited number of discounted tickets available for this event!)
What to expect at GrafanaCON 2025
In addition to hands-on experiences, technical talks, and deep-dive sessions, GrafanaCON 2025 includes a ton of opportunities to network with peers and discover the latest trends and tools in the open source observability space.
Some of the event highlights include:
- The opening keynote: Join Grafana Labs leaders and engineers to learn about the new features in the upcoming Grafana 12 major release, along with other exciting OSS project updates.
- The hallway track: Time to put some faces to all those GitHub handles. Chat with your connections from social channels and the Grafana Community Forum.
- Ask the Experts booth: Connect with project maintainers for Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Pyroscope, k6, Faro, Beyla, and more.
- Welcome party at the Museum of Pop Culture: Toast the open source community in Seattle’s stunning landmark, which showcases notable pop culture moments and memorabilia.
Stay tuned to learn more about the full GrafanaCON 2025 agenda, which will be released in March.
Hands-on labs at GrafanaCON 2025
This year Grafana Labs experts will be leading optional hands-on labs on Tuesday, May 6 to give attendees the chance to build new telemetry pipelines, new skill sets, and new connections.
Morning sessions
- Grafana as code: Build and deploy your dashboards at scale: We will walk you through common use cases for building dashboards from code and then help you compose dashboards and build your own pipeline to deploy them into a Grafana instance.
- Best practices to level up your Grafana dashboarding skills: This session will teach you tips and tricks for creating impactful dashboards. Learn about data formats, transformations, and more to configure Grafana dashboards to meet your needs.
Afternoon sessions
- Building OpenTelemetry and Prometheus native telemetry pipelines with Grafana Alloy: Learn to build telemetry pipelines from start to finish with with Grafana Alloy — an open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector that enables you to collect telemetry in Prometheus and/or OTel formats to observe infrastructure, applications, or both.
- Bridge the gap to your data: Create a custom data source for Grafana: Learn how to create your own custom data source plugin for Grafana from scratch using Grafana’s developer tools.
Note: Tickets for hands-on labs can only be purchased with a conference ticket, and you can choose up to one morning and one afternoon lab. Learn more and register on our GrafanaCON 2025 Hands-on labs web page.
Golden Grot Awards: submit your dashboard today!
We’re constantly amazed by the stunning dashboards our community members build to visualize their data — whether related to a personal hobby or mission-critical business metrics. We want to recognize those fantastic dashboards and the community members who built them with the third annual Golden Grot Awards.
The Golden Grot Awards recognize the top dashboards in two categories: professional and personal. The top dashboards in each category will be showcased during GrafanaCON 2025, and the grand prize winners receive a trip to Seattle to be celebrated on stage during the big event.
Community members can submit a maximum of one dashboard per category by February 21. Need a little inspiration? Check out our 2024 winners for personal dashboard (how to monitor traffic for a morning commute in Atlanta) and professional dashboard (how to monitor steel alloys).
We can’t wait to see everyone (and all those beautiful dashboards) in Seattle this May!
The countdown to GrafanaCON 2024 has begun! Register for the event today.