Plan your GrafanaCON 2026 experience

Name: GrafanaCON 2026 agenda
Start: 2026-04-20T00:00:00
End: 2026-04-22T00:00:00
Location: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya

30+ live sessions. Ask the Experts booth. Interactive Grafana dashboards. Sunset in the garden. What isn't happening at GrafanaCON 2026?

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All day activities

Birds of a feather

Connect with the community and dive into the topics you care about in a small group environment.

Ask the experts

Meet and learn from our project maintainers and engineers at our popular Ask the Experts booth.

Science fair

Interact with hackathon projects and unexpected Grafana dashboard setups. (Ping-pong anyone?)

All sessions

Monday, 20 April 2026

- 08:00
- 1 hour
- Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Main Entrance
Registration & breakfast for morning hands-on lab attendees
Breakfast for all morning hands-on lab attendees will be available starting at 8:00 a.m. Enjoy a hosted breakfast and network with other lab attendees.
- 08:00
- Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Main Entrance
Registration opens
Avoid the lines and come pick up your badge before the conference officially begins! Registration will be open until 5:00 p.m.
Note: Only hands-on labs will be open on this day and a separate ticket is required to attend a hands-on lab.
- 09:00
- 3 hours
- Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
- Hands-On Lab
AI inception: Using AI to build a Grafana plugin that uses AI
Experience firsthand how to use large language models (LLMs) to simplify Grafana plugin development and enrich the user experience.
Thank you to our AI inception hands-on labs sponsor Anthropic.
Registration for this lab has closed.
- Esteban BeltranSenior Software EngineerGrafana Labs
- Timur OlzhabayevSenior Engineering ManagerGrafana Labs
- 09:00
- 3 hours
- Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
- Hands-On Lab
Dashboarding 101: Best practices to build and edit Grafana dashboards
Learn how to build, iterate, and customize a Grafana dashboard, so you can quickly and confidently gain meaningful insights into your data.
Registration for this lab has closed.
- Yaëlle ChaudySenior Manager, EngineeringGrafana Labs
- Alexa Vargas OrtegaStaff Software EngineerGrafana Labs
- 09:00
- 3 hours
- Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
- Hands-On Lab
Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook
Walk through the steps of instrumenting an application with OpenTelemetry and sending metrics, logs, and traces to the open source Grafana LGTM stack.
Registration for this lab has closed.
- Liudmila MolkovaStaff Developer AdvocateGrafana Labs
- Mario Macías LloretPrincipal Software EngineerGrafana Labs
- 13:00
- 3 hours
- Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
- Hands-On Lab
Advanced dashboarding: Build and manage dynamic Grafana dashboards at scale
Create Grafana dashboards that provide dynamic, context-aware experiences to guide you through different stages of analysis — from high-level overviews to scoped investigations and detailed incident views.
Registration for this lab has closed.
- Yaëlle ChaudySenior Manager, EngineeringGrafana Labs
- Tom GlennSenior Developer AdvocateGrafana Labs
- 13:00
- 3 hours
- Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
- Hands-On Lab
Alloy in action: Build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
Build telemetry pipelines with Alloy — an open source OpenTelemetry collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines — from start to finish.
Registration for this lab has closed.
- Mischa ThompsonSenior Software EngineerGrafana Labs
- Lisa Jung Staff Developer AdvocateGrafana Labs
- 13:00
- 3 hours
- Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
- Hands-On Lab
Shift left with reliability testing: A hands-on introduction to k6
Get practical, step-by-step guidance to shift from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability testing using k6, browser-based tests, and synthetic monitoring checks.
Registration for this lab has closed.
- Simon LeganderDirector, EngineeringGrafana Labs
- Marie CruzSenior Developer AdvocateGrafana Labs

Plan your GrafanaCON 2026 experience

All day activities

Birds of a feather

Ask the experts

Science fair

All sessions

Monday, 20 April 2026

Registration & breakfast for morning hands-on lab attendees

Registration opens

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

Dashboarding 101: Best practices to build and edit Grafana dashboards

Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook

Advanced dashboarding: Build and manage dynamic Grafana dashboards at scale

Alloy in action: Build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

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

Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Registration & breakfast

Databases (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope) group discussion

Grafana Alerting: strategies and resolutions group discussion

Grafana Champions & community organizers group discussion

Watch the GrafanaCON 2026 keynote!

Lessons from that security incident when everything went wrong (but ended up right)

Break

Building a digital twin of the ocean: 4D ecological monitoring with robotics, AI-powered analytics, and Grafana

Inside Loki’s new architecture for faster logging at petabyte scale

Lunch

How the LEGO Group's Grafana dashboard framework helps teams build the observability they need, brick by brick

Alloy’s OpenTelemetry engine: What's new and what's next

eBPF application instrumentation for Java: challenges, design, and real-world examples

Golden Grot Awards ceremony

Break

Inside Grafana Labs’ business data stack

Pyroscope 2.0: Continuous profiling that scales

Rapid development for nuclear-powered data centers with Grafana, machine learning, and Jupyter notebooks

ASAPQuery: Speed up Grafana dashboards by 100x

Meet TamaGROTchi: The first fully observable digital pet

GrotShotPro: The open source launch monitor for golfers

Community Party

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Registration & breakfast

Actually useful AI group discussion

BizOlly (Business Observability)

Diversity & allyship in tech group discussion

OpenTelemetry and Alloy group discussion

Grafana 13 deep dive

Break

Planet-scale dashboards at Google with Grafana

When theory meets scale: Operating Mimir and Tempo in production

The open source journey: Enabling real-time Kafka data visualization in Grafana

Lunch

Scaling Grafana Assistant: Context, confidence, and AI observability

All aboard: How Irish Rail built an intelligent railway monitoring platform with Grafana

How k6 v2.0 lowers the barriers to proactive testing with AI-assisted authoring, visual scripting, and more

Break

The latest in Grafana Alerting: One alert engine to rule them all

Using Grafana to demonstrate the scale, impact, and awe of the world’s fastest temporary network

How the Python Software Foundation uses Grafana to protect and scale community infrastructure

Peripheral observability: Why 72px micro-dashboards beat wall displays in incident response

Fully charged: How Drive Terra observes its entire e-bike business in Grafana, from battery health to inventory

From cows to canvas panels: Measuring emissions in naturally ventilated livestock barns

Closing talk

All sessions

Monday, 20 April 2026

Registration & breakfast for morning hands-on lab attendees

Registration opens

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

Dashboarding 101: Best practices to build and edit Grafana dashboards

Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook

Advanced dashboarding: Build and manage dynamic Grafana dashboards at scale

Alloy in action: Build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

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

Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Registration & breakfast

Databases (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope) group discussion

Grafana Alerting: strategies and resolutions group discussion

Grafana Champions & community organizers group discussion

Watch the GrafanaCON 2026 keynote!

Lessons from that security incident when everything went wrong (but ended up right)

Break

Building a digital twin of the ocean: 4D ecological monitoring with robotics, AI-powered analytics, and Grafana