Birds of a Feather discussions

Name: Birds of a Feather | GrafanaCON 2026
Start: 2026-04-20T00:00:00
End: 2026-04-22T00:00:00
Location: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya

Join us to explore the topics you care about in small, intimate group discussions with your fellow community members.

Tuesday, 21 April 2026

- 08:00
- 45 minutes
- Room J
- Activation
Databases (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope) group discussion
Join us for facilitated group discussions on exploring Grafana's powerful open-source databases for observability telemetry: Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope. Each database will have a dedicated discussion group, bringing together users, maintainers, and experts to share experiences, challenges, and best practices. Whether you're optimizing performance, troubleshooting issues, or building robust monitoring pipelines, come to this Birds of a Feather session to connect, learn, and contribute.
- 08:00
- 45 minutes
- Room H3
- Activation
Grafana Alerting: strategies and resolutions group discussion
Join us for a facilitated Birds of a Feather discussion focused on alerting in Grafana. This session brings together users, operators, and contributors to explore how teams design, manage, and evolve alerting strategies using Grafana’s alerting capabilities.
Connect with Grafana engineers and community members to discuss your use cases and best practices for building actionable alerts, reducing noise, managing on-call fatigue, and responding effectively to incidents. Whether you’re just getting started with Grafana Alerting or operating complex alerting setups at scale, bring your questions, war stories, and ideas to share with the community.
- 08:00
- 45 minutes
- Room H2
- Activation
Grafana Champions & community organizers group discussion
Join us for a Birds of a Feather discussion exploring key aspects of the Grafana & Friends community organizer program and the Grafana Champions program. We'll discuss maximizing your impact as a community leader, leveraging AI for enhanced engagement, and staying current with Grafana's evolving ecosystem. This session is for all Grafana enthusiasts seeking to connect, learn, and contribute. Share your insights, ask questions, and help shape the future of our community.

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

- 08:00
- 45 minutes
- Room H3
- Activation
Actually useful AI group discussion
Join us for a facilitated Birds of a Feather discussion focused on AI within Grafana products. This session brings together users, builders, and community members to explore how AI is being used across the Grafana stack to improve observability workflows—from smarter dashboards and alerting to faster troubleshooting, incident response, and operational insights.
Connect with Grafana engineers and community contributors to discuss real-world use cases, what’s working (and what’s not), and how AI can best support humans in operating complex systems. Whether you’re experimenting with AI-powered features or already using them in production, bring your questions, feedback, and ideas to help shape the future of AI in Grafana.
- 08:00
- 45 minutes
- Room B
- Activation
BizOlly (Business Observability) group discussion
Join us for a facilitated Birds of a Feather discussion focused on business observability. This session brings together practitioners, platform teams, and community members working across the observability ecosystem to explore how technical telemetry can be connected to business outcomes and decision-making.
Connect with peers and experts to discuss approaches for reducing the gap between system signals and business impact, improving cross-team visibility, and creating shared practices that help organizations understand how their services affect customers, revenue, and operations. Whether you’re aligning observability with KPIs, integrating data across teams and tools, or shaping how observability drives business insight, bring your questions, experiences, and ideas to share with the group.
- 08:00
- 45 minutes
- Room H2
- Activation
Diversity & allyship in tech group discussion
Join us for an open, collaborative discussion on diversity and allyship in the tech industry. This Birds of a Feather session will explore the lived experiences of underrepresented groups in tech, the barriers they continue to face, and the role allyship plays in creating meaningful change. Together, we’ll brainstorm practical strategies for fostering inclusive teams and cultures, discuss how to advocate for equity in everyday work, and exchange insights on career growth and development. Whether you’re actively practicing allyship, looking to learn, or navigating these challenges firsthand, your perspective is welcome. This will be a supportive, respectful space for honest conversation as we work toward a more inclusive and equitable tech community.
- 08:00
- 45 minutes
- Room J
- Activation
OpenTelemetry and Alloy group discussion
Join us for a facilitated Birds of a Feather discussion exploring how Grafana Alloy and OpenTelemetry are used in practice, both individually and together.
This session brings together users, contributors, and community members to discuss real-world approaches to collecting, processing, and routing telemetry data. We’ll explore how OpenTelemetry enables consistent collection of metrics, logs, and traces across systems, how Grafana Alloy fits into modern observability pipelines, and how teams combine the two to build flexible, scalable telemetry architectures.
Connect with project maintainers and contributors to share best practices, lessons learned, and practical use cases. Whether you’re just getting started or already running these technologies in production, bring your questions and experiences to the conversation.

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Birds of a Feather discussions

Tuesday, 21 April 2026

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

Grafana Alerting: strategies and resolutions group discussion

Grafana Champions & community organizers group discussion

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Actually useful AI group discussion

BizOlly (Business Observability) group discussion

Diversity & allyship in tech group discussion

OpenTelemetry and Alloy group discussion

Register now to join us in Barcelona

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Tuesday, 21 April 2026

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

Grafana Alerting: strategies and resolutions group discussion

Grafana Champions & community organizers group discussion

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Actually useful AI group discussion

BizOlly (Business Observability) group discussion

Diversity & allyship in tech group discussion

OpenTelemetry and Alloy group discussion