Agenda
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Register nowDay 1
Sept. 24, 2024
Registration & breakfast for workshop attendees
Registration for all workshop attendees (separate ticket required to attend workshops) opens at 8:00. Enjoy a hosted breakfast and network with other workshop attendees.
Introduction to OpenTelemetry
Learn the fundamentals of OpenTelemetry for modern observability and how you can get started quickly with these open standards with Grafana Cloud. Separate ticket required to attend this workshop.
Tom Donohue
Senior Field EngineerGrafana LabsBrian LeBlanc
Senior Solutions EngineerGrafana LabsEldin Nikocevic
Lead Solutions EngineerGrafana LabsÉamon Ryan
Senior Principal Field EngineerGrafana Labs
Introduction to observability with Grafana Cloud
Learn best practices for monitoring modern applications and how to use Grafana Cloud’s observability workflows to identify issues, troubleshoot, and find the root cause quickly. Separate ticket required to attend this workshop.
Mark Covello
Solutions EngineerGrafana LabsAnina Mu
Solutions EngineerGrafana LabsAmber Salome
Senior Field EngineerGrafana LabsBrandy Smith
Staff Customer Solutions EngineerGrafana Labs
Introduction to Loki and Grafana Cloud Logs
Learn about the easiest way to get the benefits of Loki – Grafana Cloud Logs – and best practices for shipping, exploring, querying, and visualizing log data. Separate ticket required to attend this workshop.
Eli Bonadies
Solutions EngineerGrafana LabsEric Carpenter
Senior Solutions EngineerGrafana LabsSara Diorio
Senior Solutions EngineerGrafana LabsAdam Quan
Senior Principal Solutions EngineerGrafana Labs
Registration & lunch for all conference attendees
Registration for all conference attendees opens at 12:00. Enjoy a hosted lunch and network with other attendees. Explore the Expo and chat live with Grafana Labs experts.
Opening keynote
Learn about the latest features and AI/ML developments in the Grafana LGTM Stack and Grafana Cloud that make it easier and faster to get value from your observability practice.
Manoj Acharya
VP, EngineeringGrafana LabsRaj Dutt
CEO, Co-FounderGrafana LabsOlin Gay
Director - Head of ObservabilityBlackRockJen Villa
Director of ProductGrafana LabsTom Wilkie
Chief Technology OfficerGrafana Labs
From a constellation of tools to a centralized observability stack: Planet’s journey with Grafana Cloud
Learn about Planet’s path from tool sprawl to Grafana Cloud’s fully managed observability stack built on Mimir for metrics, Tempo for traces, and Loki for logs. You will also hear about the team’s future plans for leveraging Pyroscope for profiles and Grafana Cloud solutions for IRM and performance testing.
Jacob Straszynski
Staff Software EngineerPlanet
Afternoon break
Instrumentation and ingestion in an instant: Demo of Grafana Alloy, Grafana Beyla, and OpenTelemetry
Learn the basics of Grafana Alloy and Beyla and watch a live demo of how, with a single deployment, you can instantly get your data into Grafana Cloud for unified application and infrastructure observability.
Matt Durham
Senior Software EngineerGrafana LabsCarrie Edwards
Senior Software EngineerGrafana LabsNikola Grcevski
Principal Software EngineerGrafana Labs
Troubleshoot faster with unified application and infrastructure observability in Grafana Cloud
See a live demo of Grafana Cloud’s workflows for unified application, Kubernetes, and infrastructure observability for faster root cause analysis.
Myrle Krantz
Engineering DirectorGrafana LabsBaljeet Saini
Lead Software EngineerBlackRockGoutham Veeramachaneni
Product ManagerGrafana Labs
Welcome reception
Close out the first day of ObservabilityCON in high spirits! Enjoy delicious food, specialty drinks, and a few fun surprises – all in the excellent company of your fellow conference attendees.
Day 2
Sept. 25, 2024
Registration & breakfast
Enjoy a hosted breakfast and network with other conference attendees in the Expo Hall.
Panel discussion: You've implemented observability at scale. Now what?
Hear from a panel of observability leaders at Pegasystems and LexisNexis about their journey to implementing observability at scale, and what happens next: driving adoption, demonstrating value for the business, future-proofing their strategy, and more.
Frank Guerrera
Chief Technology OfficerPegasystemsWayne Jin
VP, Product MarketingGrafana LabsNeil Wilson
Director of Software Engineering, Insurance TechnologyLexisNexis Risk Solutions
How IG Group embraced an 'observable by default' culture with Grafana Cloud
Learn how IG Group shifted from disparate monitoring solutions to centralized observability with Grafana Cloud Metrics, Logs, and Traces – and as a result streamlined operations, reduced costs, and transformed the financial services company’s engineering culture.
Natalie Ujuk
Logging and Telemetry Team LeadIG Group
Morning break
AI/ML in Grafana Cloud: Saving toil, time, and money
Learn how AI/ML-powered Grafana Cloud features like Sift, Asserts, and Adaptive Metrics are helping organizations reduce toil, get faster insights, optimize observability costs – and level up the productivity of their engineers.
Edward Qian
Senior Software EngineerGrafana LabsJen Villa
Director of ProductGrafana Labs
TeleTracking's path to future-proofing its observability practice with Grafana Cloud
Learn how TeleTracking expanded observability coverage, improved the ability to bring context to issues, and defined more focused and quantifiable planning targets with Grafana Cloud Metrics, Logs, IRM, and Frontend Observability.
Oren Lion
Director, Software EngineeringTeleTrackingAndrew Qu
Software Engineer IITeleTracking
A user's guide to Grafana Cloud's end-to-end IRM solution
See a demo of how 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.
Devin Cheevers
Director of ProductGrafana LabsSarah Kaplan
Senior Engineering ManagerGrafana Labs
Lunch
Best practices for faster insights from your metrics, logs, traces, and profiles
Learn about the latest features and functionality in Grafana Mimir for Prometheus metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, Grafana Tempo for traces, and Grafana Pyroscope for profiles – and best practices for getting faster insights from your data.
Joe Elliott
Principal Software EngineerGrafana LabsCatherine Gui
Senior Product DesignerGrafana LabsRyan Perry
Principal Product ManagerGrafana Labs
How Unity migrated to Grafana Mimir and scaled its metrics backend to 150 million active series
Learn how Unity migrated its metrics backend from Thanos to Cortex to Grafana Mimir and scaled it to over 150 million active series – and saved millions of dollars in the process.
Greg Chambers
Senior Software Engineer, QualityUnity TechnologiesLukas Monkevicius
Senior Site Reliability EngineerUnity Technologies
Improving developer velocity: How Grafana Cloud helped ASAPP streamline dashboard creation
Learn how ASAPP, which provides AI-powered customer service solutions, increased developer productivity with a streamlined process for creating dashboards in git and importing them into Grafana Cloud.
Pato Arvizu
Staff Site Reliability EngineerASAPPRamiro de Zavalia
Staff Site Reliability EngineerASAPP
Afternoon break
How to use synthetics, load testing, and real user monitoring to understand your end users' experience
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.
Virginia Cepeda
Senior Software EngineerGrafana LabsMarcelo Magallón
Senior Software EngineerGrafana LabsPeter Schretlen
Senior Manager, EngineeringGrafana Labs
With chained OpenTelemetry collectors and Grafana Cloud, Novo Nordisk achieves centralized observability
Get the technical and architectural details behind how Novo Nordisk runs a hub-and-spoke Kubernetes cluster setup with chained OpenTelemetry collectors. You’ll learn how they use Grafana Cloud to provide a centrally managed platform that mimics multi-tenancy.
Juan González Martínez
Senior Software Developer - SecurityNovo NordiskCasper Nielsen
Operations & SRE Capability LeadNovo Nordisk
How State Street is building its AIOps and observability strategy with Grafana
Learn about State Street’s Grafana-based Visualization as a Service, which provides a single pane of glass for their centralized observability stack and brings together fragmented and diverse data sources. You’ll also hear about the positive early results of their work with AIOps, including using GenAI to generate visualizations in Grafana.
Mihai Popa
Vice President/DirectorState Street
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