Grafana Labs at FOSDEM 2026: Kubernetes, AI, and more

Open source and community are at the heart of Grafana Labs, which makes FOSDEM a highlight on our calendar each year. It’s one of those events where ideas flow freely, conversations turn into collaboration, and the OSS community truly takes center stage.

We’ve been part of FOSDEM for almost a decade, and can’t wait to be back again this year. Taking place in Brussels on Jan. 31–Feb. 1, the event will be a great chance to connect with thousands of community members and exchange best practices and insights on the latest open source developments.

Here’s a little more info about where you can find us at the event. We're excited to see you there! 

The Grafana Labs stand at FOSDEM

We’re always blown away by how many people stop by our stand at FOSDEM to chat, ask questions, and share feedback or ideas. Whether you’re deep into Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, or Pyroscope, or just curious about what we’re building next, we hope you’ll come by. This year, our stand will be on Level 1 in the K building.

And some good news for all those 3D printing fans: our friends at Prusa Research, who use Grafana to monitor their huge printer farm, will also be joining us! We’ll be streaming live metrics from their CORE One L 3D printer and, of course, printing some pretty cool swag. 

FOSDEM talks by Grafanistas

Several Grafana Labs team members will also be giving talks at FOSDEM, covering everything from Kubernetes and CPU performance to AI. Be sure to mark your calendars for the following sessions and lightning talks:

Saturday, Jan. 31:

• The perfect open source toolkit for container monitoring 
  • When: 12:10-12:30
  • Presenter: Usman Ahmad, Staff Developer Advocate
• Cube, dbt, and Grafana: the OSS stack that blends data analytics with observability data
  • When: 13:20-13:25
  • Presenter: Sam Jewell, Staff Software Engineer
• Run your 3D printer on Kubernetes
  • When: 14:00-14:10
  • Presenter: Nadia Santalla, Senior Software Engineer

Sunday, Feb. 1:

• Why I volunteer at FOSDEM and you should too! 
  • When: 11:00-11:15 
  • Presenter: Imma Valls, Staff Developer Advocate
• Running a highly available, ad-blocking, private DNS setup in Kubernetes 
  • When: 10:00-10:25 
  • Presenter: Nadia Santalla, Senior Software Engineer
• Understanding why your CPU is slow: Hardware performance insights with perf-go
  • When: 11:00-11:30
  • Presenter: Christian Simon, Principal Engineer
• FOSDEM infrastructure review
  • When: 16:20-16:35
  • Presenters: Richard “RichiH” Hartmann, Senior Developer Programs Director and Sebastian Schubert, Staff Solutions Engineer  
• AI shockwave in open source communities: How AI is reshaping the foundations of open source communities
  • When: 16:35-17:00
  • Presenters: Amanda Wagner, Senior Developer Community Manager and David Allen, Senior Developer Advocacy Director

See you in Brussels!