GrafanaCON 2026: Register today for our biggest community event of the year!

Barcelona is known for its sunshine, stunning architecture, and this year GrafanaCON 2026, which will land on the Catalan coast 20-22 April.

Registration is officially open for GrafanaCON 2026, which means it’s time to secure your spot at our biggest community event of the year! We hope you’ll join us to explore the latest updates to Grafana and its extended OSS ecosystem, connect with fellow community members, and so much more.

Register today to take advantage of early bird pricing and get 50% off standard ticket prices.

(P.S. There are a limited number of discounted tickets available for this event and they’re bound to go fast!)

What to expect at GrafanaCON 2026

In addition to hands-on labs, technical deep dives, and community-led sessions, GrafanaCON 2026 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: Hear Grafana Labs leaders and engineers share what’s new in the upcoming Grafana 13 release, along with other exciting OSS project updates.
• The hallway track: Meet your Community Forum friends and LinkedIn connections in person to share ideas, a cup of coffee, and, of course, your favorite dashboards. 
• Ask the Experts booth: Connect with project maintainers for Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Pyroscope, k6, Alloy, Beyla, and more.
• Community Garden Party: Cultivate connections with the OSS community at this can’t-miss attendee party. 
• GrafanaCON Science Fair: Play and interact with projects demonstrating all the different things you can monitor with Grafana.
• Golden Grot Awards: Join us in celebrating the open source community and the amazing Grafana dashboards they create.

Stay tuned to learn more about the full GrafanaCON 2026 agenda, which we will share in the coming weeks. 

Hands-on labs at GrafanaCON 2026

On Monday, 20 April, Grafana Labs experts will lead a number of hands-on labs, where you can learn how to build dashboards, data sources, telemetry pipelines, and more. 

Here’s a closer look. 

Morning sessions

Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook

Walk through the journey of instrumenting an application with OpenTelemetry and sending metrics, logs, and traces to the Grafana LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics).

AI inception: Using AI to build a Grafana plugin that uses AI

Experience firsthand how large language models (LLMs) like Claude can simplify Grafana plugin development and enrich the user experience.

Dashboarding 101: Best practices to build and edit Grafana dashboards

Learn how to build, iterate, and customize a Grafana dashboard step by step, so you can quickly and confidently gain meaningful insights into your data. 

Afternoon sessions

Alloy in action: Build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

Use Alloy to receive, transform, and export telemetry from a sample application to observability backends within the Grafana LGTM stack.

Advanced dashboarding: Build and manage dynamic Grafana dashboards at scale

Use features like dynamic dashboards and Git Sync to build and manage production-grade Grafana dashboards at scale.

Shift left with reliability testing: A hands-on introduction to k6

Explore how to make reliability testing part of your overall observability strategy, using k6 to identify performance bottlenecks proactively. 

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 2026 hands-on labs web page.

We can’t wait to see you in Barcelona this April! 

The countdown to GrafanaCON 2026 has begun! Register for the event today.