Observability Sessions
Bay Area
Featured sessions led by observability experts
The six essentials of observability success
Proven leadership strategies to align teams, secure buy-in, and build a resilient observability framework.
Blueprints for observability excellence
Strategic roadmaps, best practices, and engagement models to drive adoption and scale observability at your organization.
From observability insights to business impact
Learn how top companies measure success and connect observability to business outcomes
Real-world case study
Learn how a tech leader transformed observability at multiple companies with Grafana Cloud.
Agenda at a glance
Agenda
- 12:30 pm
Registration
Get your badge, meet the Grafana Labs team, and settle in for a great afternoon. - 1:00 pm
Opening remarks
Get a preview of the afternoon’s program and get to know your Grafana Labs hosts.
- Christine Wang, Director, Solutions Engineering, Grafana Labs
- 1:10 pm
The six essentials of observability success
Effective observability isn’t just about tools – it’s about leadership, too. In this session, you’ll learn the six essentials for building and sustaining a strong observability strategy. From aligning teams and securing executive support to avoiding common pitfalls, we’ll show you how these essentials work together to create a successful observability framework that empowers your organization to make better decisions, respond to issues faster, and protect what matters most.
- Alex Ma, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, Grafana Labs
- 1:40 pm
How to implement your observability strategy with the Grafana platform
Observability can help your organization ensure reliability that keeps customers engaged and coming back for more. But how do you move from what you’re doing now to a centralized, end-to-end approach to observability? In this presentation, you’ll learn how the Grafana platform offers all the tooling you need to make a seamless transition to a powerful new observability strategy. And you’ll see exactly how other companies are making the move to centralized observability with Grafana technologies.
- Shawn Madden, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, Grafana Labs
- 2:10 pm
Fivetran to Grafana: How Fivetran migrated enterprise observability in 60 days
When Fivetran needed to migrate to Grafana across 40+ regions spanning GCP, AWS, and Azure, in 60 days, they knew they had a huge challenge ahead. This wasn’t just a technical challenge—they had to seamlessly transition 400+ engineers and 150+ support/sales staff to a completely new observability platform without disrupting their data movement services that power countless organizations’ data and AI infrastructure.
In this session, you’ll discover the strategic decisions, infrastructure patterns, and execution tactics that enabled Fivetran’s lightning-fast migration. Learn how they selected Grafana, architected their systems for maximum agility, coordinated massive organizational change, and delivered a complex observability transformation in just two months—all while maintaining 99.9% uptime for Fivetran customers.
- Mike Gordon, Vice President, Platform Engineering, Fivetran
- 2:40 pm
Break
Grab a refreshment and connect with members of your local observability leadership community. - 3:00 pm
From data to decisions: How one leader delivered observability success at multiple companies with Grafana Cloud
Learn how Brian Murphy led his team at a major US tech company to revolutionize their observability practices with Grafana Cloud and the LGTM stack. You’ll discover the key strategies for leading a team in centralizing data, creating actionable alerts, and building unified dashboards to streamline operations. Brian will also share how features like Adaptive Metrics helped propel his company’s observability strategy forward – and how you can apply these insights at your own organization.
- Brian Murphy, Observability Architect, Grafana Labs
- 3:30 pm
The business value of observability
Are your observability processes engineered to provide a strategic cost advantage? In this session, you’ll learn practical strategies for using observability to optimize cost by streamlining processes and reducing waste, decrease time to market, accelerate developer adoption, and maximize business outcomes through data-driven decision making. Find out how observability can bring even more value to your business by surfacing new insights and opportunities for growth and innovation. We’ll also share real-world examples of what great observability looks like.
- Matt Maloney, Senior Global Business Value Engineer, Grafana Labs
- 4:00 pm
Observability journeys panel
Learn in a dynamic discussion with Grafana experts and local observability leaders from AuditBoard, Planet, and Trace3 as they share successes, setbacks, and next steps in their observability journeys.
- Christine Wang, Director, Solutions Engineering, Grafana Labs
- Chris Comerford, Senior Director, Software Engineering, Planet Labs PBC
- Neil Laughlin, Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering, AuditBoard
- Josh Lindstrom, Senior Director, Data & Analytics, Trace3
- 4:30 pm
Closing remarks and Q&A
- 4:40
Networking reception
Continue the conversation and connect with peers, leaders, and experts over refreshments and drinks.
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