GrafanaCON 2025: Start exploring this year’s agenda
We’re excited to share that the agenda for GrafanaCON 2025 is officially live! And, spoiler alert: it’s jam-packed with technical sessions, user success stories, and unique experiences (a Grafana-themed Science Fair, anyone?!) bound to make this year’s event one for the books.
Taking place in Seattle, May 6-8, GrafanaCON is our annual community conference focused on all things Grafana and its extended open source ecosystem. This year’s agenda features all the tried-and-true content and activities our community has grown to love about GrafanaCON, including deep-dive talks on Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Mimir, and Tempo; our popular Ask the Experts booth; hands-on labs; and the annual Golden Grot Awards ceremony.
But the GrafanaCON 2025 agenda also includes some new elements — like our inaugural Science Fair and Birds of a Feather discussions — designed to help you build even deeper connections (and maximize the fun) during your trip to the Emerald City.
Let’s take a closer look so you can start to plan your full GrafanaCON 2025 experience today.
GrafanaCON 2025 agenda: technical talks
GrafanaCON 2025 starts on May 6 with a series of hands-on labs (separate ticket required) that provide you with firsthand experience in building dashboards, data sources, and new telemetry pipelines.
From there, we’ll dive into two days of technical talks led by both Grafana Labs experts and members of our OSS community. Below are some highlights; to see the full line-up of sessions, please refer to the GrafanaCON agenda.
From the Grafana Labs team
Opening keynote
Join co-chairs Carl Bergquist, Mihaela Maior, and Richard “RichiH” Hartmann for the official kickoff of GrafanaCON 2025. Grafana Labs CEO/Co-founder Raj Dutt and Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard will be on hand to celebrate highlights from the past year. Members of our engineering team will make some exciting announcements around our open source projects and unveil what’s new in Grafana 12.
Grafana 12 deep dive
Check out the latest major release of your favorite dashboarding tool! The engineers behind the new features and functionality for Grafana will lead a deep dive session on what’s new: from dashboards as code, config in git, and dynamic dashboards to updates to alerting, the app platform, and beyond.
Mimir 3.0 preview: Major improvements to stability, performance, cost, and scalability
In this session, Mimir team members will preview the new features in the upcoming Grafana Mimir 3.0 major release.
k6 1.0: How this long-awaited major release makes it easier to get started with testing
Grafana k6 v1.0 is here! k6 contributors will demonstrate features in the open source load testing tool, such as native extensibility (no more xk6 workarounds); the OpenAPI converter to streamline and automate the creation of TypeScript-based tests; and k6 Studio, a desktop application that simplifies performance testing for everyone.
Without a trace (query): Troubleshooting simplified with Tempo and Traces Drilldown in Grafana
See how Traces Drilldown in Grafana, powered by Grafana Tempo, can simplify complex troubleshooting, helping you quickly detect latency issues, identify error trends, and spot anomalies — all without having to learn yet another query language.
Agent-driven Grafana: Going beyond AI chat interactions
Learn how LLMs can evolve from simple chat interfaces to become active participants in the Grafana ecosystem with new agentic workflows.
3 data source plugins to add to your stack after this talk
Grafana is not just about visualizing metrics, logs, and traces. It’s about bringing your data — wherever it lives, whatever it is — into one spot. Imagine bringing together data about deployments, cloud costs, and web accessibility! In this lightning talk, Grafana Labs Staff Software Engineer Sarah Zinger will share three open source data source plugins from the Grafana catalog and demonstrate how you can use them to enrich your existing dashboards.
From the community
Community voices are a cornerstone of all GrafanaCON events. This year, members of our open source community will share fun and inspiring use cases, from monitoring apple orchards to troubleshooting alarms in the remote parts of the Alaskan electric grid. Again, we spotlight a few of these below, but for the full list of user-led sessions, please check out the agenda.
Loki at Dropbox: Strategies for reliable petabyte-scale logging
In this session, Infrastructure Software Engineer Chris Hodges shares hard-won lessons from scaling Grafana Loki to manage multi-petabyte unstructured logs for 1,000+ services at Dropbox.
Did the apple fall far from the tree? Monitoring an off-grid family orchard
Learn how Arthur Kepler’s work as a site reliability engineer helped him build a remotely managed monitoring system for an orchard using solar power, remote networking, MQTT, InfluxDB, and Grafana.
How Grafana helps passenger satisfaction take flight at Schiphol Airport
DevOps engineer Gerard van Engelen will share how PXP leverages Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Alloy, and Faro to enable real-time, data-driven insights into system performance and user interactions. These insights support passenger satisfaction, streamline operations, and reveal new commercial opportunities for one of the busiest airports in the world.
Circumnavigation or bust: The OSS data stack powering a droneship’s journey around the world
Embark on an extraordinary journey with Project Bob, spacecraft engineer Andrew McCalip’s plan to send a 14-foot drone boat on a record-breaking 25,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, leveraging Grafana and Tailscale to achieve seamless connectivity and real-time data monitoring.
Monitoring EA App’s 200+ core error metrics with a scalable, color-coded Grafana dashboard
In this session, EA Software Developer Kenny Chen walks through how his team built a Grafana dashboard that client teams can use to monitor 200+ core error metrics.
Troubleshooting issues in remote corners of Alaska’s electric grid with Grafana
In this session, led by Network and Security Systems Specialist Jess Russell, you’ll take a look inside how Homer Electric Association (HEA) implemented Grafana on premises to monitor performance and troubleshoot alarms in the remote parts of the Alaskan electric grid.
Other GrafanaCON agenda highlights
In addition to the technical deep-dives and community-led sessions, we have a ton of other fun events in store for GrafanCON 2025 that you don’t want to miss. These include:
- 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.
- GranfaCON Science Fair: Play and interact with projects demonstrating all the different things you can monitor with Grafana (3D printers, wind tunnels, and more).
- Birds of a Feather: Join us to discuss the topics you care about in small, intimate group discussions with your fellow community members.
- Grafana’s Big Tent podcast — Live! Join us for a lively conversation about the joys of extreme home labs and DIY IoT. Grafana’s Big Tent podcast co-hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie will welcome a few special guests to the GrafanaCON stage for a live recording of your favorite observability podcast.
- Ask the Experts booth: Connect with project maintainers for Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Pyroscope, k6, Faro, Beyla, and more.
- The Golden Grot Awards: We’ll showcase the top three dashboards in each category (professional and personal), and celebrate the grand prize winners on stage.
We can’t wait to see you in Seattle in May!
The countdown to GrafanaCON 2025 has begun! Register for the event today.
