Convince your company to send you to ObservabilityCON 2026

Subject: Request for Approval to Attend ObservabilityCON 2026 in San Francisco

Hi [Your Manager’s Name],

I'm reaching out to request approval to attend ObservabilityCON 2026, scheduled to take place in San Francisco from October 19–21, 2026. This annual event hosted by Grafana Labs is where the latest in AI and observability will be showcased, and I believe my participation will directly benefit our team and my own professional development.

Why ObservabilityCON? The 2026 program is organized around a theme that maps directly to what our team is working on: AI for observability, and observability for AI. Here’s what the conference will feature and what I would bring back:

• Hands-on demos and deep dive sessions: Grafana Labs engineers run interactive workshops around topics such as building advanced dashboards with Grafana Assistant, building telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Alloy. I'll learn best practices that I can apply to [our project] directly, instead of working from documentation.

• A first look at AI-powered observability: Live demos of agentic tools and workflows in Grafana Cloud, plus interactive demo stations for Grafana Assistant and Adaptive Telemetry, the capability aimed at cutting what we spend on telemetry we never query. I'll come back with a read on what's practical for us to adopt now versus what to plan for.

• Observability for AI: A major theme covers Agent Observability, monitoring and QA for agentic software once it's in production. That's a problem we'll have to solve for [our AI initiative], and I'll be learning from teams already doing it.

• Peers and engineers in the same room: The Ask the Experts desk gives me 1:1 time with Grafana Labs engineers, and conference days pair technical sessions with user success stories from teams running observability at scale. I'll bring our open questions on [specific blocker] and come back with the unfiltered version of how other teams solved them—what worked, what didn't, and what it cost.

Cost Breakdown:

• Registration fee: $[Ticket Cost] — a limited number of tickets are available at discounted rates

• Hands-on workshop ticket: $[Workshop Cost]

• Estimated travel expenses: $[Estimated Travel Cost]

• Estimated accommodation: $[Estimated Accommodation Cost] for [Number of Nights] nights

• Miscellaneous expenses: $[Estimated Miscellaneous Cost]

Total Estimated Cost: $[Total Estimated Cost]

If I attend ObservabilityCON, I'm confident that I will return with insights that will directly benefit our team and accelerate our observability projects. I'll be more than happy to share those key takeaways in the formal or informal setting of your choice.

Thank you for considering my request. I am eager to discuss this opportunity further and address any questions or concerns you may have.

Warm regards,

[Your Name]

[Your Position]

[Your Contact Information]