Agenda

1. 9:00 AM 10:00 AM

   Registration + Expo

   Enjoy a light breakfast while networking with attendees and exploring Grafana demos in the Expo hall
2. 10:00 AM 10:45 AM

   ObservabilityCON on the Road Keynote

   Live in Chicago, it’s ObservabilityCON on the Road! Join Grafana’s Senior Product Manager, Jen Villa, for a look at the latest trends across the observability ecosystem and developments in the open and composable LGTM (Loki-Grafana-Tempo-Mimir) observability stack.

   

   • Jen Villa, Director of Product, Grafana Labs
3. 10:45 AM 11:15 AM

   How to reduce observability costs by controlling metrics growth

   The shift to cloud native architectures and increased developer autonomy to instrument applications has caused an explosive growth of metrics data and cardinality. But more data does not mean better observability: It can be difficult to balance scale while managing costs.

   Learn how Grafana Cloud can help lower your observability bills. By regulating metrics growth through governance and unique customized aggregations, you optimize your costs and pay closer to what you actually use.

   

   

   • Dave Frankel, Solutions Engineering Director, Grafana Labs
   • Tyler Reid, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
4. 11:15 AM 11:45 AM

   How to manage the tradeoff between cost and coverage for observability logs

   Logs have always been, and continue to be, a critical part of the troubleshooting workflow for observability and SRE teams. But the reputation of legacy solutions being expensive on budgets and resources – for storing and querying – results in teams making tradeoffs on which services and applications to instrument logging. This creates observability blind spots.

   Learn how Grafana Loki can help you optimize multiple stages of your logging lifecycle – from supporting multiple log formats and smaller indexing, to blazing fast querying and long-term retention. Uniquely built on Prometheus architecture, Grafana Loki is a cost-effective logging solution purpose built for observability.

   

   

   • Steven Dungan, Product Manager, Grafana Labs
   • Travis Patterson, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
5. 11:45 AM 12:45 PM

   Lunch
6. 12:45 PM 1:15 PM

   How Fetch created a data-oriented company culture with Grafana

   At Fetch, nearly everyone – from product and design to engineering and support – uses Grafana. The company prioritizes measuring and improving everything from high-level business outcomes to low-level technical monitoring. Grafana enables them to aggregate, analyze, and transform diverse sources of data into powerful visualizations that drive outcomes.

   In this session, you’ll learn how the Fetch team leverages Grafana to address a range of operational and technical use cases, including monitoring technical infrastructure health and product KPIs, leveraging logs from Grafana Loki when metrics aren’t available, keeping maintenance low with multi-dimensional alerting, and using query comparisons across data sources to create powerful alerts.

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   • Alex Cook, Site Reliability Engineering Lead & Manager, Fetch
   • Kyle Heisler, Site Reliability Engineer, Fetch
7. 1:15 PM 1:45 PM

   How to avoid the most common Kubernetes monitoring mistakes

   Which metrics should you collect? What dashboards are best suited to effectively monitor Kubernetes clusters? How do you measure resource utilization for capacity planning? Often, this is all a game of trial and error – and one that business-critical services cannot afford.

   Learn how Grafana Cloud’s K8s monitoring solution was built so you can avoid the guessing game and kickstart your K8s observability strategy in minutes. In this session, we break down the most common Kubernetes monitoring mistakes and share best practices on how to set up Kubernetes monitoring the optimal way.

   

   • Éamon Ryan, Senior Principal Field Engineer, Grafana Labs
8. 1:45 PM 2:15 PM

   From OSS to Enterprise: How Grafana continues to be foundational for Netsmart’s observability experience

   Netsmart has been building healthcare solutions since 1968, empowering providers and patient care across the spectrum of a person’s life. Choosing the right technology and partners is key to fostering innovation and sustainable engineering. Grafana was adopted many years ago to provide both out-of-the-box and tailored experiences across an array of data sources to surface key insights and optimize how engineers build and run solutions.

   In this session, Ryan Behan – VP of Engineering & Principal Architect at Netsmart – will share Netsmart’s journey from OSS to Grafana Enterprise to support a broad portfolio of technology stacks, applications, services, and hosting paradigms.

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   • Ryan Behan, VP, Engineering & Principal Architect, Netsmart
9. 2:15 PM 2:45 PM

   Afternoon break
10. 2:45 PM 3:15 PM

    How to prioritize critical resources through SLO-driven Incident Response & Management

    Prioritizing performance issues based on business impact is often challenging because it is hard to quantify the right SLO/SLI levels.

    Learn how you can build an SLO framework that unifies data from multiple disparate tools and is integrated into a seamless incident management workflow with Grafana OnCall and Incident. You can then prioritize responding to the most critical error budget burndowns, allowing your critical developers to focus on innovation rather than firefighting performance issues.

    

    • Navish Bahl, Principal Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
11. 3:15 PM 3:45 PM

    How to prevent issues from hitting customers by using load testing and tracing together

    With the increased demand to ship new features, developers can overlook the importance of catching and resolving performance issues before they hit end users in production. Learn how Grafana’s unique solution of k6 performance testing correlated with Grafana Tempo distributed tracing can help developers easily prevent performance problems before they become an issue.

    

    • Joe Elliott, Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
12. 3:45 PM 5:00 PM

    Reception + Expo

    Join us for appetizers and beverages while networking with attendees and meeting Grafana experts in the Expo hall