Observability Sessions Austin
Connect with observability leaders to learn how they think, act, and innovate
Learn how to build an effective observability strategy with this half-day event
Blueprints for what works — and what doesn't
Learn best practices to align teams, strategic roadmaps that work, and engagement models that drive adoption and scale observability at your organization.
From insights to business impact
Check out how successful companies centralized teams and adopted an observability-forward culture that works.
Real-world success stories
Meet tech leaders who will share how they transformed observability within their companies with Grafana Cloud.
What top practitioners are talking about
Network with industry leaders, and hear about how they really feel about AI and what keeps them up at night.
Register now to join us in Austin
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When
May 12, 2026
Where
Assembly Hall
1121 E 7th St.Agenda
- 1:00 PM
- 30 minutes
Registration
- 1:30 PM
- 15 minutes
Opening remarks
- 1:45 PM
- 30 minutes
The state of observability: What leaders are getting right – and where they’re falling behind
Explore fresh survey data with insights from senior observability decision-makers across industries on what’s working, what’s not, and where the biggest gaps and opportunities lie.
- Sven TrautmannManager, Observability ArchitectureGrafana Labs
- 2:15 PM
- 30 minutes
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.
- Marc NetterfieldSenior Solutions EngineerGrafana Labs
- 2:45 PM
- 30 minutes
Break
- 3:15 PM
- 30 minutes
Single pane, many perspectives: Favor’s dashboard for Operation Readiness
Keeping dozens of services healthy at scale requires more than alerts, it requires ritualized alignment. In this talk, Kevin Panahi, Sr. SRE at Favor, details Favor's Operational Readiness Review: a biweekly, 15-minute cadence where SREs and development teams review a single central Grafana dashboard fed by Grafana Cloud Metrics, Logs, and Traces plus external sources (service catalog and IRM). Kevin explains how Favor integrated SLO tracking into that dashboard, surfaced breaches and approaching breaches, and created common dashboards across language teams so every dev sees the same health signals for their stack.
Kevin will share the technical plumbing, how SLOs were operationalized into conversation and action during the review, and the qualitative business outcomes: faster incident awareness, clearer prioritization, and a stronger partnership between SRE and product teams. Join Kevin to see the dashboard layouts, cadence tips, and practical SLO framing that make a single-pane operational review actually work.
- Kevin PanahiSr. Site Reliability EngineerFavor
- 3:45 PM
- 30 minutes
User success story
- 4:15 PM
- 30 minutes
The golden path: Everything you need to reach observability maturity
The top request our Observability Architects get from teams is for best practices: tried and true paths to successful deployment, laid out step by step, and examples of usable automation.
In this session, Grafana Labs experts will walk through real-world examples from our customers who have achieved observability maturity at both small and massive scale: how they deploy, how they automate, how they enforce, and how they measure value. They'll also share some new initiatives within our product and educational programs to make realizing maturity much less daunting.
- Alec IsaacsonStaff Observability ArchitectGrafana Labs
- 4:45 PM
- 15 minutes
Closing session + Q&A
- 5:00 PM
- 1 hour
Reception and networking
