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Introduction to Grafana Observability

  • 7 October 2025
  • BSTUTC
  • 3.5 hours
  • Convene Sancroft, St. Paul’s
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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.

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.

During this three-hour workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to observe a modern microservices application running on Kubernetes. Through a combination of metrics, logs, and traces, you’ll gain practical insights into observability principles and techniques.This is the workshop for you if you are an SRE interested in learning best practices for resolving issues quickly experienced in Kubernetes and have access to Grafana Cloud.

What you’ll learn:

  • A comprehensive understanding of the three pillars of observability
  • How to gain deep insights into your application performance and Kubernetes clusters with Application Observability and Kubernetes Monitoring in Grafana Cloud
  • How to identify issues and troubleshoot with Grafana Cloud’s observability workflows to find the root cause
  • How to streamline root cause analysis with the latest AI tools in Grafana Cloud
Workshops are only available for in-person conference attendees and are all held on 7 October 2025. You can register for up to two workshops (one morning session and one afternoon session), but there are limited tickets available for each workshop so sign up today!

Speakers

Alex Kirtley-Close

Alex Kirtley-Close

Principal Field Engineer  •  Grafana Labs
As Principal Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs, Alex specializes in Observability with a focus on Logging. Having worked at Elastic as a Solutions Architect (Observability SME) and most recently focusing on Financial Services he has a broad, deep knowledge of how different teams use Observability solutions to solve their problems. Alex has a real world understanding and appreciation of what is required of a modern Observability stack having been a software engineer for many years, designing, building and maintaining large cloud native applications. In his free time he likes to be outside in nature with his wife and son whilst planning to escape technology by having a smallholding in the countryside.
Amber Salome

Amber Salome

Senior Field Engineer  •  Grafana Labs
Amber Salome is a Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, focused on customer use cases with metrics and logs. Amber has a background in observability and cloud native technologies, and is passionate about enablement and implementation best practices in these spaces. Amber is based out of Chicago, IL and spends her free time cycling, enjoying nature, and walking by Lake Michigan.