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Tuesday, May 6
Hands-on labs
These sessions led by Grafana Labs experts will be held in the morning and afternoon of May 6. Tickets for hands-on labs can only be purchased with a conference ticket.
9:00 AM
180 mins
Norcliffe Room
Grafana as code: Build and deploy your dashboards at scale
Learn best practices for building dashboards from code. We will walk you through common use cases, and then we’ll help you compose dashboards and build your own pipeline to deploy them into a Grafana instance.
- Kévin Gomez
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Tom Glenn
Senior Developer Advocate
Grafana Labs
- 9:00 AM
- 180 mins
- Allen Foundation Room
Best practices to level up your Grafana dashboarding skills
Whether you've just built your first dashboard or work with Grafana every day, this session will teach you best practices for creating impactful dashboards. Learn about data formats, transformations, and more to configure Grafana dashboards to meet your needs.
- Leon Sorokin
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Usman Ahmad
Senior Developer Advocate
Grafana Labs
- 1:00 PM
- 180 mins
- Norcliffe Room
Building OpenTelemetry and Prometheus native telemetry pipelines with Grafana Alloy
Grafana Alloy, an open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector, enables you to collect telemetry in Prometheus and/or OTel formats to observe infrastructure, applications, or both. Learn to build telemetry pipelines with Alloy from start to finish.
- Mischa Thompson
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Lisa Jung Staff Developer Advocate
Grafana Labs
- 1:00 PM
- 180 mins
- Allen Foundation Room
Bridge the gap to your data: Create a custom data source for Grafana
Delve into the world of Grafana’s extensibility by learning how to create your own custom data source plugin. By the end of the three hours, you will have created a new data source from scratch using Grafana's developer tools.
- David Harris
Group Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- Sarah Zinger
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Tom Glenn
Senior Developer Advocate
Grafana Labs
Wednesday, May 7
Morning coffee fix (c'mon... it's Seattle!)
- 8:00 AM
- 60 mins
- Promenade Lobby (Ground floor) & Grand Lobby (First floor)
Registration & breakfast
Registration for all attendees opens at 8:00. Enjoy a hosted breakfast, network with other GrafanaCON attendees, or join a Birds of a Feather discussion (below).
Birds of a feather
- 8:00 AM
- 45 mins
- Norcliffe Room
Women & gender minorities
We'll discuss the unique challenges underrepresented genders face in the tech industry, explore strategies for building inclusive teams and cultures, and share career growth and development tips.
- 8:00 AM
- 45 mins
- Allen Foundation Room
Grafana Champions & community organizers
We'll discuss maximizing your impact as a community leader, leveraging AI for enhanced engagement, and staying current with Grafana's evolving ecosystem through the Grafana & Friends community organizer program and the Grafana Champions program.
Sessions
- 9:00 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Opening keynote
Join co-chairs Carl Bergquist, Mihaela Maior, and Richard “RichiH” Hartmann for the official kickoff to GrafanaCON 2025! Members of our engineering team will make some exciting announcements around our open source projects and unveil what’s new in Grafana 12.
- Carl Bergquist
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Mihaela Maior
Director of Engineering
Grafana Labs
- Richard "RichiH" Hartmann
Office of the CTO
Grafana Labs
- Raj Dutt
CEO, Co-Founder
Grafana Labs
- Torkel Ödegaard
CGO, Co-Founder
Grafana Labs
- 10:00 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
You can do what with Grafana? Highlights from our Grafana Labs hackathons
Join us for a showcase of some of the most whimsical projects that have come out of our hackathons, including Doomfana, Dash Dash Revolution, and more!
- Bogdan Matei
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Kostas Pelelis
Software Engineer Grafana Labs
- Domas Lapinskas
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 10:30 AM
- 30 mins
- Go explore!
Break
- 11:00 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
We can’t spoil all the surprises.
Come back to find out who's joining us!
- 11:30 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
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.
- Chris Hodges
Infrastructure Software Engineer
Dropbox
- 12:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
7 features to get more out of Loki with Logs Drilldown in Grafana
This session will show you how to get the most out of Loki with Logs Drilldown, the queryless, point-and-click experience in Grafana that allows you to quickly find insights in your observability data — no queries or complicated syntax required.
- Trevor Whitney
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Matias Wenceslao Chomicki
Staff Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 12:30 PM
- 60 mins
- Promenade Lobby (Ground floor) & Grand Lobby (First floor)
Lunch
- 1:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
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.
- Arthur Kepler
Principal DevOps Engineer
Thrackle
- 2:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Prometheus 3.0: Everything you need to know
3.0 is the first major version of Prometheus in seven years — and we're celebrating the milestone. With a brand-new user interface, and offering new features such as UTF-8 character support, this release also enabled many small improvements that were previously behind feature flags.
- Carrie Edwards
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Jan Fajerski
Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat
- 2:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
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.
- David Grant
Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Jonathan Halterman
Principal Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 3:00 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Easier and faster exploration of complex metrics with Metrics Drilldown in Grafana
See a demo of the power of Metrics Drilldown, including its novel approach to metrics exploration, integrating OpenTelemetry resource attributes with Prometheus labels.
- Brendan O'Handley
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 3:10 PM
- 20 mins
- Main Stage
Golden Grot Awards ceremony
And the Golden Grot goes to…. Find out the winners of our annual Golden Grot Awards, which highlight the amazing Grafana dashboards our community creates.
- 3:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Go explore!
Break
- 4:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
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.
- Gerard van Engelen
Platform Engineer
Codepeople
- 4:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Easy homelab observability with Grafana Beyla, powered by eBPF and OpenTelemetry
Learn how to deploy Beyla with Prometheus and leverage the power of OpenTelemetry’s semantic conventions to observe your services with ease, in your home lab or in production.
- Nikola Grcevski
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Goutham Veeramachaneni
Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- 5:00 PM
- 15 mins
- Main Stage
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.
- Andrew McCalip
Head of Research And Development
Varda Space Industries
- 5:15 PM
- 45 mins
- Main Stage
Confessions of a serial tinkerer: Homelabs gone wild, secret Raspberry Pi stashes, and more
Join Grafana's Big Tent podcast — Live! Co-hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie will welcome Andrew McCalip (ask me about: my drone ship), Brad Fitzpatrick (ask me about: my overbuilt home lab), and Ivana Huckova (ask me about: monitoring bird songs) for a conversation about the joys of extreme home labs.
- Andrew McCalip
Head of Research And Development
Varda Space Industries
- Ivana Huckova
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Brad Fitzpatrick
Chief Engineer
Tailscale
- 6:30 PM
- 210 mins
- Museum of Pop Culture
All-attendee party
Thursday, May 8
Morning coffee fix (c'mon... it's Seattle!)
- 8:00 AM
- 60 mins
- Promenade Lobby (Ground floor) & Grand Lobby (First floor)
Registration & breakfast
Registration for all attendees opens at 8:00. Enjoy a hosted breakfast, network with other GrafanaCON attendees, or join a Birds of a Feather discussion (below).
Birds of a feather
- 8:00 AM
- 45 mins
- Norcliffe Room
Grafana & OpenTelemetry
Meet with project maintainers and contributors and learn about real-world use cases and best practices for leveraging these open source tools.
- 8:00 AM
- 45 mins
- Allen Foundation Room
Databases (Tempo, Pyroscope, Mimir, Loki)
Meet with project maintainers and contributors and learn about best practices for leveraging these open source databases.
Sessions
- 9:00 AM
- 90 mins
- Main Stage
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.
- Mitch Seaman
Director of Product
Grafana Labs
- Mihaela Maior
Director of Engineering
Grafana Labs
- 10:30 AM
- 30 mins
- Go explore!
Break
- 11:00 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
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.
- Théo Crevon
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Ayush Goyal
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 11:30 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Grafana Alloy: combining the OpenTelemetry Collector with a high-performance Prometheus pipeline
Grafana Labs' Ted Young and Johanna Öjeling provide a demo of how Alloy delivers a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and a high-performance Prometheus pipeline in a single binary deployment; the debugging workflows; and the performance and cost savings users have seen running it at scale.
- Johanna Öjeling
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Ted Young
Developer Programs Director
Grafana Labs
- 12:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
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.
- Andrew Stucky
Senior Engineering Manager
Grafana Labs
- Alex Simion
Senior Software Engineer
Glovo
- 12:30 PM
- 60 mins
- Promenade Lobby (Ground floor) & Grand Lobby (First floor)
Lunch
- 1:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
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.
- Yasir Ekinci
Principal Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 2:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Deep dive into the InfluxDB 3 Core open source release
InfluxDB 3 Core is the new open source release of InfluxDB 3, a time series and analytic event database built with Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet. InfluxDB creator Paul Dix will cover InfluxDB Core's diskless design, which allows it to operate solely with object storage (in addition to a regular local disk).
- Paul Dix
Cofounder and CTO
InfluxData
- 2:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Why you should care about continuous profiling and how to get started with Profiles Drilldown in Grafana
Pyroscope co-founder Ryan Perry will highlight real-world examples of how continuous profiling has transformed performance engineering at Grafana Labs and beyond, and show you how to get started with the query-less Profiles Drilldown app in Grafana.
- Ryan Perry
Principal Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- 3:00 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
K8s Dungeon Crawl: When observability meets adventure
Step into the K8s Dungeon Crawl, where Grafana isn't just for dashboards. In this lightning talk, Kim Schaefer will guide you through a modified version of the classic open source dungeon crawler Brogue. But in K8s Dungeon Crawl, in-game monsters are mirrored as Kubernetes deployments.
- Kim Schaefer Cloud Native Enthusiast
- 3:10 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
My laundry dashboard and other absurdly unconventional use cases for Grafana
How much time is left on my laundry load? A million rows of metrics in TimescaleDB later, Dakota Roth had a real-time Grafana dashboard monitoring how busy the laundry room was, which machines were used the most – and yes, when his load of laundry would be done.
- Dakota Roth Student
- 3:20 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Hungry for data: Monitoring carnivorous plants with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki
In this lightning talk, Jay Clifford, a developer advocate at Grafana Labs, shares his journey of applying observability practices to maintain a small carnivorous plant tank, turning his love for these fascinating plants into a data-driven passion project.
- Jay Clifford
Senior Developer Advocate
Grafana Labs
- 3:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Go explore!
Break
- 4:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Monitoring EA App’s 200+ core error metrics with a scalable, color-coded Grafana dashboard
In this session, EA Software Engineer Kenny Chen walks through how his team built a Grafana dashboard that client teams can use to monitor 200+ core error metrics.
- Kenny Chen
Software Developer II
Electronic Arts
- 4:30 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Troubleshooting issues in remote corners of Alaska’s electric grid with Grafana
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.
- Jess Russell
Network and Security Systems Specialist
Homer Electric Association, Inc
- 4:40 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Bringing situational awareness to observability with Grafana and Prometheus
Orange Barrel Media Engineering Manager Christoph Roedig will explore how to make observability tools more helpful in real-world scenarios, such as monitoring a large network of touchscreen multimedia kiosks across the U.S.
- Christoph Roedig
Manager, Production Systems
Orange Barrel Media
- 4:50 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Radio Grafana: Mapping planes and ships using data from radio receivers
Learn how data gathered from radio receivers fetching locations of planes, ships, and Meshtastic devices can be used to create reception overviews using Grafana, Prometheus, a bit of custom code, and a home server.
- Mateusz Kulewicz
Software Engineer
Canonical
- 5:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Air-gapped observability at the edge: Monitoring distributed infrastructures with Grafana
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Ruslan Dautov explores how ZEDEDA integrates Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus to deliver real-time observability for large-scale distributed, air-gapped, and intermittently connected edge infrastructures. You'll see how industries like manufacturing and energy leverage Grafana to monitor edge infrastructure under strict network constraints.
- Ruslan Dautov
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
ZEDEDA
- 5:30 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
3 data source plugins to add to your stack after this talk
Learn about three data source plugins that can enrich your existing dashboards in new ways.
- Sarah Zinger
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 5:40 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Advancing security and innovation: Microsoft’s open source contributions to Grafana
Microsoft Software Engineer John Naizer will walk through his team's migration to Grafana for executive dashboards to track metrics, manage incidents, maintain service quality, and more. The team also built a new authentication system that offered greater security than the existing native Azure authentication in Grafana and contributed the feature to Grafana OSS
- John Naizer
Software Engineer
Microsoft
- 5:50 PM
- 15 mins
- Main Stage
Closing talk
That's a wrap on GrafanaCON 2025!
- Tom Wilkie
Chief Technology Officer
Grafana Labs