Plan your experience at ObservabilityCON 2025
Don't miss the hands-on workshops, inspirational live keynote, or technical deep dive sessions—all led by observability experts.
All sessions
7 October 2025
BSTUTC
8 hours
Registration Opens
Avoid the lines and come pick up your badge before the conference officially begins!
Note: Only workshops will be open on this day and a separate ticket is required to attend a workshop.
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30 mins
Registration & breakfast for morning workshop attendees
Breakfast available for all morning workshop attendees (separate ticket required to attend workshops) opens at 8:00 a.m. Enjoy a hosted breakfast and network with other workshop attendees.
- BSTUTC
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3.5 hours
Convene Sancroft, St. Paul’s
Introduction to tracing with Grafana Tempo
Learn about tracing with Grafana Tempo, and how to query with Traces Drilldown and TraceQL for deep insights into your data.
- Heds Simons
Senior Principal Field Engineer
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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3.5 hours
- Convene Sancroft, St. Paul's
Introduction to OpenTelemetry
Get an introduction to the fundamentals of OpenTelemetry, learn how to monitor and troubleshoot using Grafana Cloud, and experience OpenTelemetry in action — without needing to write any code.
- Tom Donohue
Senior Field Engineer
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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3.5 hours
- Convene Sancroft, St. Paul’s
Introduction to Grafana Observability
Join us for a hands-on workshop on observability tailored for SREs. We’ll demonstrate how to use Grafana Cloud’s observability workflows to identify issues, troubleshoot, and find the root cause quickly when monitoring modern applications.
- Alex Kirtley-Close
Principal Field Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Amber Salome
Senior Field Engineer
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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30 mins
Registration & lunch for afternoon workshop attendees
- BSTUTC
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3.5 hours
- Convene Sancroft, St. Paul’s
Introduction to AWS Observability in Grafana Cloud
Learn how to observe your AWS workloads and infrastructure in Grafana Cloud
- BSTUTC
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3.5 hours
- Convene Sancroft, St. Paul’s
Building telemetry pipelines with Grafana Alloy
Get hands-on with Grafana Alloy to collect, process, and visualize observability data.
- Patrick Easters
Staff Field Engineer
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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3.5 hours
- Convene Sancroft, St. Paul’s
Introduction to Grafana Observability
Join us for a hands-on workshop on observability tailored for SREs. We’ll demonstrate how to use Grafana Cloud’s observability workflows to identify issues, troubleshoot, and find the root cause quickly when monitoring modern applications.
- Alex Kirtley-Close
Principal Field Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Amber Salome
Senior Field Engineer
Grafana Labs
8 October 2025
- BSTUTC
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1 hour
Registration & breakfast for all conference attendees
Registration for all conference attendees opens at 9:00. Enjoy a hosted breakfast and network with other attendees. Explore the Expo and chat live with Grafana Labs experts.
- BSTUTC
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1 hour
- Main Stage
Opening Keynote
Learn about the latest features and AI/ML developments in Grafana Cloud that help you ensure reliability, resolve issues faster, and optimize your observability practice.
- Manoj Acharya
VP, Engineering
Grafana Labs
- Raj Dutt
CEO, Co-Founder
Grafana Labs
- Dmitry Filimonov
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Myrle Krantz
Engineering Director
Grafana Labs
- Sean Porter
Distinguished Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Mat Ryer
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Jeremy White
VP of Engineering
SpotOn
- Tom Wilkie
Chief Technology Officer
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
Morning break
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
How DeliveryHero migrated 2,000+ users to Grafana Cloud and reshaped observability at scale
An inside look at how the global delivery company migrated their legacy observability platform (and 2,000+ users) to Grafana Cloud
- Andy Howden
Director of Engineering (Acting)
DeliveryHero
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
Full-stack observability: Faster root cause analysis with Grafana Cloud’s knowledge graph
Watch a demo of how you can easily troubleshoot all of your applications, databases, and Kubernetes clusters by leveraging the knowledge graph in Grafana Cloud.
- Manoj Acharya
VP, Engineering
Grafana Labs
- Cedric Ziel
Staff Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
Scaling observability at AXA Germany with Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry: How standardization and automation drove adoption
The team at AXA Germany will reveal their best tips for driving adoption of open standards and a unified observability stack within your company.
- Julia Dutzmann
Software Engineer
AXA Germany
- Sebastian Miottke
Product Owner
AXA Germany
- BSTUTC
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1 hour
Lunch
Enjoy a hosted lunch and network with other attendees. Explore the Expo and chat live with Grafana Labs experts.
- BSTUTC
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45 minutes
- Main Stage, Lunch Session
The complete story: How Grafana Cloud connects code to customer experience
Discover how Grafana Cloud bridges code and customer experience with its full suite of offerings and helps teams prevent, detect, and resolve issues.
- Ward Bekker
Senior Principal Solutions Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Marc Chipouras
Senior Director, Emerging Products
Grafana Labs
- Ryan Perry
Principal Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
With eBPF and OpenTelemetry, Finastra turned a potential internal DoS into a new observability architecture built for long-term resilience
FinTech company Finastra prevented a potential denial-of-service (DoS) attack using Grafana Alloy, Grafana Beyla, and the OpenTelemetry Operator. This session shows you exactly how they did it.
- Vladimir Babichev
Platform Architect
Finastra
- Maciej Maciejewski
Expert Software Engineer
Finastra
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
A practical guide to adopting OpenTelemetry at scale with Grafana Cloud
Did you know Grafana Alloy is the only collector that is a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines? Check out live demos of how Grafana Cloud natively supports OpenTelemetry and Prometheus with Alloy and learn how to monitor all your collectors with Fleet Management.
- Edwin Onattu
Senior Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- Ted Young
Developer Programs Director
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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45 mins
Afternoon break
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
Growing observability for IoT-driven, industrial-scale vertical farming with Grafana Cloud
To maintain uptime for industrial-scale vertical farms, Intelligent Growth Solutions uses Grafana Cloud to provide mission-critical observability for their IoT-driven agritech platform.
- Owen Bower Adams
Head of Platform Engineering
IGS
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
From dashboards to decisions: How agentic AI is reshaping observability
Check out how Grafana’s agentic AI systems help users write queries, run investigations, manage dashboards, and resolve incidents all using natural language. Plus get a sneak peek at what’s new and what’s next.
- Dmitry Filimonov
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Cyril Tovena
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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1.25 hours
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 company of your fellow conference attendees.
9 October 2025
- BSTUTC
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1 hour
Registration & breakfast
Enjoy a hosted breakfast and network with other conference attendees in the Expo Hall.
- BSTUTC
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60 minutes
- Main Stage
Smarter observability with Grafana Cloud: Collect the data you need, when you need it, and know what it costs
See how the latest features in the Adaptive Telemetry suite and new FinOps-focused billing tools help you control observability costs and get more value and insights from your data.
- Dee Kitchen
VP, Engineering
Grafana Labs
- Rich Kreitz
Staff Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- Sean Porter
Distinguished Engineer
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
Morning break
- BSTUTC
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45 minutes
- Main Stage
Panel discussion: Observability in the AI age
AI is changing the speed of innovation and how we evolve our observability practices. Join us for a candid discussion about how industry leaders are navigating digital complexity in the age of AI.
- Neil Laughlin
Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering
Auditboard
- Dave Russell
Director, Voice of the Customer
Grafana Labs
- Jeremy White
VP of Engineering
SpotOn
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
How Ocado enables smarter, business-centric observability with Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry
Over the years, Ocado adopted fragmented legacy tooling, such as New Relic and PagerDuty, which led to high costs and complexity. Hear how the company used OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud to build a business-driven observability strategy anchored on centralized metrics, logs, and traces.
- Mirek Wierzba
Director of Engineering
Ocado
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
The golden path: Everything you need to reach observability maturity
The No. 1 request from our community? Best practices for a successful deployment and effective automation. In this session, our Grafana Labs experts share real stories and strategies from industry leaders who have built a mature observability stack.
- Jeffrey Freeman
VP Customer Solutions
Grafana Labs
- Brandy Smith
Observability Architecture Manager
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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1 hour
Lunch
- BSTUTC
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45 minutes
- Main Stage, Lunch Session
The complete story: How Grafana Cloud connects code to customer experience
Discover how Grafana Cloud bridges code and customer experience with its full suite of offerings and helps teams prevent, detect, and resolve issues.
- Ward Bekker
Senior Principal Solutions Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Marc Chipouras
Senior Director, Emerging Products
Grafana Labs
- Ryan Perry
Principal Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
Reliability from the outside in: How Grafana Cloud helps you see what your users experience
See what your users actually experience in your applications by leveraging synthetic monitoring, performance testing, and frontend observability for a complete, user-centric view of reliability.
- Chris Bedwell
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Mark Meier
Staff Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
How Just Eat Takeaway.com load tests with Grafana Cloud k6 to ensure millions of people get their orders reliably
Reliability is essential when millions of deliveries are on the line. Learn how Just Eat Takeaway.com uses Grafana Cloud k6 to prevent system failures with load testing.
- Christopher Orchard
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Just Eat
- BSTUTC
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45 mins
Afternoon break
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
Grafana at scale on Azure: How Backbase deploys customer stacks in minutes and empowers users to turn business data into faster decisions
Learn how fintech leader Backbase deploys production-ready Grafana stacks on Azure in minutes. Discover their secrets for fully automated integration, empowering customers with prebuilt dashboards to make faster business decisions and turn massive scale into a competitive advantage.
- Manu Chadha
Product Director
Backbase
- Andrei Drumov
Principal System Engineer
Backbase
- BSTUTC
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30 minutes
- Main Stage
Create a better reliability culture with AI + Grafana Cloud IRM, SLO, and Alerting
Tired of fire drills? Learn how AI-powered incident response workflows reduce cognitive load, automate reviews, and help your teams respond faster and learn from every incident.
- Sonia Aguilar Peiron
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Devin Cheevers
Director of Product
Grafana Labs
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