Hands-on labs

Name: Hands-on labs | GrafanaCON 2026
Start: 2026-04-20T00:00:00
End: 2026-04-22T00:00:00
Location: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya

These sessions, led by Grafana Labs experts, will be held in the morning and afternoon of 20 April. Tickets for hands-on labs can only be purchased with a conference ticket.

When you register, you can choose up to one morning and one afternoon lab in the "add-ons" section.

Featured Lab: Shift left with reliability testing — hands-on k6 intro

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Morning
Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook
Monday, 20 April, 09:00 - 12:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
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 closes 16 April.
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Morning
AI inception: Using AI to build a Grafana plugin that uses AI
Monday, 20 April, 09:00 - 12:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
Experience firsthand how to use large language models (LLMs) to simplify Grafana plugin development and enrich the user experience.
Registration for this lab closes 16 April.
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Morning
Dashboarding 101: Best practices to build and edit Grafana dashboards
Monday, 20 April, 09:00 - 12:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
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 closes 13 April.
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Afternoon
Alloy in action: Build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
Monday, 20 April, 13:00 - 16:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
Build telemetry pipelines with Alloy — an open source OpenTelemetry collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines — from start to finish.
Registration for this lab closes 16 April.
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Afternoon
Advanced dashboarding: Build and manage dynamic Grafana dashboards at scale
Monday, 20 April, 13:00 - 16:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
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 closes 13 April.
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Afternoon
Shift left with reliability testing: A hands-on introduction to k6
Monday, 20 April, 13:00 - 16:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
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 closes 13 April.
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Morning
Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook
Monday, 20 April, 09:00 - 12:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
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 closes 16 April.
Register now More info
Afternoon
Alloy in action: Build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
Monday, 20 April, 13:00 - 16:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
Build telemetry pipelines with Alloy — an open source OpenTelemetry collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines — from start to finish.
Registration for this lab closes 16 April.
Register now More info
Morning
AI inception: Using AI to build a Grafana plugin that uses AI
Monday, 20 April, 09:00 - 12:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
Experience firsthand how to use large language models (LLMs) to simplify Grafana plugin development and enrich the user experience.
Registration for this lab closes 16 April.
Register now More info
Afternoon
Advanced dashboarding: Build and manage dynamic Grafana dashboards at scale
Monday, 20 April, 13:00 - 16:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
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 closes 13 April.
Register now More info
Morning
Dashboarding 101: Best practices to build and edit Grafana dashboards
Monday, 20 April, 09:00 - 12:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
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 closes 13 April.
Register now More info
Afternoon
Shift left with reliability testing: A hands-on introduction to k6
Monday, 20 April, 13:00 - 16:00
€363 (includes all applicable taxes)
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 closes 13 April.
Register now More info

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Advanced dashboarding: Build and manage dynamic Grafana dashboards at scale

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Advanced dashboarding: Build and manage dynamic Grafana dashboards at scale

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Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook

Alloy in action: Build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

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Advanced dashboarding: Build and manage dynamic Grafana dashboards at scale

Dashboarding 101: Best practices to build and edit Grafana dashboards

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