That’s a wrap on Grafana Live Washington, DC!
Connect with your local Grafana community in Washington, DC.
Hands-on demos
Try out the LGTM stack at our hands-on demo booths throughout the event
Learn LGTM
Learn all about Grafana Labs’ LGTM stack: Loki for logs, Grafana for dashboards, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics
Example stacks
See example LGTM stacks for everything from observability to IoT business dashboards
Ask the experts
Get your fill of food and answers at our ATE (Ask the Expert) area.
Lessons & tips
Hear lessons learned from a seasoned Grafana user and tips for getting the most out of Grafana 9.0
Zoom fatigue recovery
Start your Zoom fatigue recovery in a friendly environment with a limited time frame and clear exit strategy
Agenda
1:00
Registration, demo booths, Ask the Experts booth open
Check in and check out demos of ways to correlate data from across the observability ecosystem. Plus: one-on-one time with Grafana maintainers and engineers to ask all your burning questions.
1:30
Opening keynote: What’s new at Grafana Labs
Hear from Grafana Labs senior leaders about community-driven Grafana use cases and the latest milestones from Grafana Labs, including the recent Grafana 9.0 release.
2:00
Your Stack for Anything You'll Attack: Zero to Observable in < 30 Minutes
In this session, you will learn how to take a distributed microservice web application from low visibility to observability bliss in less than 30 minutes by leveraging the LGTM (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics) stack on Grafana Cloud. With this centralized observability, you’ll be able to quickly identify and solve problems as well as provide your stakeholders at every level, from developer to senior leadership, a clear view of the application performance, user experience, and KPIs.
2:30
How to use Loki like a pro
Join Ed Welch, engineering lead of the Grafana Loki project, as he reveals all his top tips and tricks for running Loki at high efficiency and getting maximum performance for your queries. He’ll also be available to answer your questions after the presentation at the Ask the Experts booth. (Find out all about how Ed monitors his homelab!)
3:00
Break - Demo booths, Ask the Experts booth open
Explore hands-on demos of ways to correlate data from across the observability ecosystem. More one-on-one time with Grafana maintainers and engineers to ask all your burning questions.
3:15
Exploring the Big Bang baseline for government K8s environments
Big Bang is a secure, declarative baseline for building, delivering, and operating custom infrastructure and configuration as code in a dedicated DevSecOps environment. It’s quickly becoming the standard for government Kubernetes environments in the DoD. In this talk, the Defense Unicorns team will describe the problem space that Big Bang looks to address and demonstrate a live deployment with the Loki-Grafana-Tempo-Mimir (LGTM) stack.
3:45
Improving Observability of the Beeswax platform with Grafana Cloud
Beeswax offers buy-side programmatic advertising capabilities for Comcast’s Freewheel, a provider of comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Their high scale bidding advertising technology platform, hosted entirely in AWS, delivers high performance in real-time under strict latency constraints.In this session, Lead Site Reliability Engineers Chaya Vavilala and James Wojewoda will share how Beeswax eliminated alert fatigue, increased reliability of their monitoring infrastructure, and scaled to meet record growth with Grafana Cloud.
4:15
Drinks, snacks, demos, and Ask the Experts booth
Enjoy a reception with the Grafana team and users like you. Get all your remaining questions answered during continued demos and Ask the Experts booth time.
5:00
Event close