Observability Sessions Melbourne

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 organisation.

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

1. 13:30

   Registration

   Get your badge, meet the Grafana Labs team, and settle in for a great afternoon.
2. 14:00

   Opening Remarks

   Get a preview of the afternoon’s program and get to know your Grafana Labs hosts.

   

   • Natalie Fair, Regional Sales Director, APAC, Grafana Labs
3. 14:10

   Accelerating digital delivery with observability

   The demand for lightning-fast delivery of innovative applications and services is a constant in our digital world. However, this urgency introduces significant pressure on observability, with complexity, culture, and cost emerging as major hurdles. This talk will explore these key challenges and offer strategies for organisations to overcome them, ensuring effective observability in a high-speed environment.

   

   

   • Anthony Woods, Co-Founder, Grafana Labs
   • Jim Katsos, Head of Solution Engineering, APAC, Grafana Labs
4. 14:50

   From insight to operational excellence: Cyara's Observability Journey

   Enterprise observability is essential for organisations aiming to improve system reliability, performance, and the overall user experience. For Cyara and its AI-led customer experience transformation platform, the path to modern observability led the team to Grafana Cloud.

   In this session, Brendon Ghumman, Director of Cloud Operations, shares Cyara’s observability journey—detailing the strategic shift from legacy solutions to a unified observability stack with Grafana Cloud. Learn how Cyara adopted metrics, logs, traces, and synthetic monitoring to drive technical innovation, smarter spending, and operational excellence.

   

   • Brendon Ghumman, Director, CloudOps, Cyara
5. 15:10

   Break

   Grab a refreshment and connect with members of your local observability leadership community.
6. 15:40

   Moving from Observability as a platform to building user workflows at Atlassian.

   Hear how Atlassian’s observability journey evolved from observability as platform to embedding observability into targeted workflows. In this session, Talal will share how Atlassian is leveraging Grafana’s rich visualisation capabilities combined with Tracing to build curated workflows for their teams to reduce trouble shooting time for support and reliability incidents.

   

   • Talal Tayyab, Senior Engineering Manager, Atlassian
7. 16:00

   Engineering observability at scale across complex systems in financial services

   Building a modern observability platform across large and complex hybrid environments and technologies requires more than just great tools—it demands a strong DevOps culture and core engineering principles across the entire organization. Learn how an observability engineer in the financial services industry worked closely with developers and SRE teams to design and deliver a highly scalable observability platform using Grafana’s single pane of glass for disparate data sources to enhance reliability, compliance, and the ability to actually find the needle in the haystack.

   

   • Sean Maritz, Staff Observability Architect, Grafana Labs
8. 16:30

   Observability journeys leaders panel

   Learn in a dynamic discussion with Grafana experts and local observability leaders as they share successes, setbacks, and next steps in their observability journeys.

   

   

   

   

   • Brendon Ghumman, Director, CloudOps, Cyara
   • Talal Tayyab, Senior Engineering Manager, Atlassian
   • Hung Dinh, Technical Director, Furō
   • Abhaya Chauhan, Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
9. 17:00

   Closing session

   Wrap-up of the day’s discussions, key themes and insights.
10. 17:10

    Networking reception

    Continue the conversation and connect with peers, leaders, and experts over refreshments and drinks.