Berlin ObservabilityCON on the Road 2024

ObservabilityCON on the Road is coming to Berlin

October 8, 2024

Preview LGTM Stack new releases

See how to leverage new features for deeper insights into application performance, improved end user experiences, and faster root cause analysis.

Deepen your OSS observability expertise

Attend technical deep dive sessions to sharpen your skills, and don’t miss the keynote to see what’s new and next in open source observability.

Drive bigger business impact

Leave with actionable tips for growing your observability strategy to optimize performance, increase revenue, and boost customer satisfaction at your organization.

Connect with Grafana Labs experts

Get your technical questions answered by Grafana Labs experts, try out new features in hands-on demos, and learn from power users in your region at customer success sessions.

Agenda

8:00 a.m.
Registration + Expo
Enjoy a light breakfast while networking with attendees and exploring Grafana demos in the Expo hall.
9:00 a.m.
Opening keynote
Join Richard ‘RichiH’ Hartmann from the Grafana Labs Office of the CTO for the kickoff of ObservabilityCON on the Road Berlin. Learn about the latest features and AI/ML developments in the Grafana LGTM Stack and Grafana Cloud that make it easier and faster for you to identify and resolve issues and get value from your observability practice.
- Richard "RichiH" Hartmann, Director, Community, Grafana Labs
9:45 a.m.
Instrumentation and ingestion in an instant: Demo of Grafana Alloy, Grafana Beyla, and OpenTelemetry
Grafana Alloy, our open source telemetry collector, uniquely provides native pipelines for both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus formats. With Alloy’s integration with Grafana Beyla for eBPF-based application auto-instrumentation, you can automatically capture metrics and traces of running services and connect them to your existing telemetry pipelines. Alloy also has an experimental feature for translating Datadog metric formats into native OTLP format. In this session, you’ll see a live demo of how, with a single deployment, you can instantly get your data into Grafana Cloud for unified application and infrastructure observability.
- Marc Tuduri, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Jorge Creixell, Principal Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Tom Braack, Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
10:15 a.m.
Troubleshoot faster with unified application and infrastructure observability in Grafana Cloud
At ObservabilityCON 2023, we announced the acquisition of Asserts, which provides an intelligence layer to telemetry data to help you understand the behavior of your applications and services. In this session, you’ll see a live demo of how these contextual alerts have been integrated into Grafana Cloud’s workflows for application, Kubernetes, and infrastructure observability – and more – to speed up root cause analysis.
- Goutham Veeramachaneni, Product Manager, Grafana Labs
- Cedric Ziel, Senior Product Manager, Grafana Labs
10:45 a.m.
Morning break
11:15 a.m.
A recipe for observability: Cookidoo’s transition to Grafana Cloud
Engineers at Cookidoo, a cooking app that helps customers around the world whip up tasty meals, needed a new recipe for observability, and they found it with Grafana Cloud. Join Senior Site Reliability Engineer Tim Schrumpf and Principal Software Engineer Dennis Rippinger from Vorwerk Gruppe (Cookidoo’s parent company) as they share the motivations behind the shift, the challenges faced, and the innovative solutions that facilitated a smooth transition from Instana to Grafana Cloud. You’ll also hear how things are going, one year after the migration: the benefits realized for the organization and what’s still to come.
- Tim Schrumpf, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Vorwerk Gruppe
- Dennis Rippinger, Principal Software Engineer, Vorwerk Gruppe
11:45 a.m.
AI/ML in Grafana Cloud: Saving toil, time, and money
Under the hood of features like Sift, Asserts, and Adaptive Metrics, AI/ML is helping organizations reduce toil, get faster insights, optimize observability costs – and level up the productivity of their engineers. In this session, you’ll see demos of these Grafana Cloud features and hear real-world examples of the value achieved with them. Plus find out what’s next for the Adaptive Telemetry cost management suite: Adaptive Logs and beyond.
- Semir Ajruli, Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs
12:15 p.m.
Lunch
1:15 p.m.
A user's guide to Grafana Cloud's end-to-end IRM solution
Grafana Cloud’s Incident Response and Management solution provides workflows that span creating alerts and SLOs, managing on-call and incident response, and learning from postmortems – all within the context of your observability stack. In this session, you’ll learn best practices for making the most of this IRM solution, including leveraging the historical incident data that’s accessible within Grafana Cloud.
- Timo Gerhard, Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
1:45 p.m.
User success story
2:15 p.m.
Best practices for faster insights from your metrics, logs, traces, and profiles
Learn about the latest features and functionality in Grafana Labs’ horizontally scalable, highly performant open source telemetry backends (Grafana Mimir for Prometheus metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, Grafana Tempo for traces, and Grafana Pyroscope for profiles). In this session, you’ll learn best practices for correlating your different telemetry data in Grafana to simplify debugging, speed up incident resolution, and understand resource usage and latency down to the code level. You’ll also see a demo of the new Explore features that remove the barrier of learning query languages like PromQL and LogQL.
- Sven Großmann, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Phillipp Eckermann, Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
2:45 p.m.
How to use synthetics, load testing, and real user monitoring to understand your end users' experience
Synthetic monitoring, which enables you to simulate and analyze user journeys, is a common starting point for understanding and improving your end users’ digital experience. In this session, you’ll find out about the latest developments in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, powered by Grafana k6, that help you simulate even the most complex transactions and user journeys. You’ll also learn how synthetics can be used in conjunction with load testing and real user monitoring in Grafana Cloud for a more holistic approach to user-centered observability.
- Chris Bedwell, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
3:15 p.m.
Reception + Expo

When:

October 8, 2024

Where:

Radialsystem

Holzmarktstraße 33 10243 Berlin, Germany

Thank you to our sponsors

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a code of conduct for the event?: Yes. By registering, all attendees at any event hosted by Grafana Labs are required to comply with the event code of conduct and event terms and conditions.

What is the refund policy? If I cannot attend, can I transfer my ticket?: Tickets are nonrefundable, but you can request to transfer your ticket to someone else by emailing events@grafana.com.

Do you require everyone to be fully vaccinated to attend?: Attendees are not required to be vaccinated in order to attend the event. Wearing a mask is up to the discretion of the attendee. Participants are asked to be respectful of each other’s comfort level on social distance.

Are there sponsorship opportunities available for this event?: There are a limited number of sponsorship opportunities available for these events. Please contact sponsors@grafana.com for more details.

How can I register?: You can register by purchasing a ticket on our website. Once payment has been processed, you will receive a confirmation email with your ticket.

Do I need to print my tickets?: You are not required to print your ticket; you can simply show one of our team members your ticket directly from your tablet or mobile phone upon arrival at the check-in desk. A valid photo ID is also an acceptable form of proof of registration.

What time should I arrive?: Registration will open at 8:00 a.m. Please check in at the registration desk and collect your name badge. If you arrive before registration is open, please wait at the entrance hall of the venue until a member of the staff lets you in.

Can I purchase a ticket at the venue?: We kindly ask participants to purchase tickets ahead of the event via our website. Tickets will not be available to be purchased on-site.

May guests attend the event?: The event is limited to attendees who have purchased a valid ticket.

Are food and drinks included with my registration?: The event will provide a light breakfast, buffet lunch, and a hosted evening reception. Snacks and beverages will be available throughout the duration of the event. If you are attending the event and have severe food allergies, please email us at events@grafana.com.

Is parking available onsite?: The compound of Radialsystem includes two disabled parking spaces. To reserve one of these parking spaces, please call the venue’s visitor service on +49 (0)30 288 788 588 or send an email to ticket@radialsystem.de. Additional parking is available at the train station Ostbahnhof (approx. a 5-minute walk to the venue).

Is public transportation available nearby?: Radialsystem can be reached by S-Bahn, Bus, Regional Train, and Long-Distance Train via Ostbahnhof. The walk from Ostbahnhof takes about 5 minutes.

What is the dress code for the event?: Business casual.

What should I bring to the event?: Come prepared with questions you would like to ask our experts. You can bring your laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. Wi-Fi will be made available throughout the conference rooms.

Will you have a coat check for the event?: Yes. There will be a cloakroom available for you to leave your personal belongings throughout the duration of the event at no additional charge.

What if I need special access requirements?: If you have any special access requirements, please email us at events@grafana.com upon registration, and we can make necessary arrangements to enable your attendance.

Will content be available on demand?: Content from select ObservabilityCON on the Road cities may be available on demand at a future date. However, we highly encourage you to attend the event in person to get the most out of the sessions.