Grafana & Friends Bengaluru

Join us for the July edition of Grafana and Friends Bangalore Meetup, where observability practitioners, developers, and SREs come together to share insights, best practices, and real-world experiences with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and the LGTM Stack!

📅 Date: 12th July, 2025

📍 Location: Lowe’s India, 5th Floor training rooms, Building Willow-L2, Manyata Embassy Business Park SEZ, Outer Ring Rd, Nagavara, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560045

Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Kv4wwVg8rrNPiDWN7

### What to Expect:

• Tech Talks: Learn from industry experts about the latest in observability, monitoring, and distributed tracing.
• Lightning Talks: Share your experiences, challenges, and cool hacks in a short format.
• Live Demos: See Grafana’s ecosystem in action with real-world use cases.
• Networking: Meet fellow engineers, discuss best practices, and grow your observability knowledge.

### Who Should Attend?

Whether you’re a developer, SRE, DevOps engineer, or just getting started with observability, this meetup is for you!

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We are looking for speakers, please fill out CFP Form if you want to speak at this meetup.

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🕒 Schedule:

11:00 AM - Check In and Kick off the event

come, check in the venue, settle in and kick off the event.

11:30 - 12:00: [Talk] Metrics to Mastery - Lowe's Observability Journey

The talk will show how Lowe’s scaled their observability across systems by standardizing metrics, and data pipelines. It will also cover they achived the Store Level Monitoring with Real Time metrics, Visualization, and Alerting. We will close off with Demo of the LOWE's observability Console, and share how they are planning to adopt Open Telemetry, Adaptive Metrics, and Use MCP Grafana to Bring LLMs into observability.

Speaker: Manoj Parida & Sai Umesh Kumar R - LOWE's

Manoj Parida: Manoj with over 13 years of experience has been a key part of Lowe’s observability journey since 2017. He has led efforts in modernizing the telemetry platform using scalable, open-source technologies to deliver end-to-end visibility across infrastructure, applications, and services. Outside of work, he enjoys watching cricket, web series and reading novels.

Sai Umesh Kumar R: Sai has been actively involved in advancing Lowe’s observability capabilities by integrating new technologies and open-source solutions. His work focuses on developing tools and systems to monitor, analyze, and enhance the performance and reliability of IT infrastructure and applications across Lowe’s Digital and Stores. In his free time, he enjoys movies, cricket and F1 Racing.

12:00 - 12:30: [Talk] Tracing & Querying Billions Of Real-time & Historical IoT Events

Learn how we built Grafana dashboards to monitor billions of IoT events from 1000+ locations. We’ll cover our dual data source setup (PostgreSQL + Parquet), trade-offs in query performance, and our evaluation of DuckDB as a unified backend. Includes a live demo and key lessons from the field.

Speaker: Tej Pochiraju

Tej Pochiraju: Tej runs IoTReady where they build solutions that bridge the gap between operations and ERPs for medium and large enterprises. Tej has been working on RFID and IoT-aligned technologies since 2006 and has helped over 200 companies globally improve operational efficiencies. IoTReady uses Grafana for plotting and alerting with TimescaleDB as the preferred data store in production for live data and Parquet for historical data (queried via DuckDB).

12:30-12:45: Short Break

12:45 - 13:15: [Talk] Why You Need Embedded Observability to Reduce Cognitive Load

As systems grow more complex and engineering teams scale, developers are burdened with increased cognitive load—from understanding sprawling microservice architectures to troubleshooting distributed systems. Traditional observability tools often exist outside of the developer’s day-to-day workflow, adding friction rather than clarity.

This talk explores the power of embedded observability—bringing observability closer to where developers live and work. By integrating telemetry, traces, logs, and metrics into the developer experience itself, we can dramatically reduce the mental effort required to debug, operate, and improve systems.

We'll cover real-world patterns, platform-centric strategies, and tooling choices that enable this shift—highlighting how embedded observability not only improves incident resolution time but also fosters a culture of shared responsibility and continuous improvement.

Whether you're building an internal developer platform or modernizing your monitoring stack, this session will help you rethink observability as a developer-first capability.

Speaker: Turja N Chaudhuri

Turja is Global Platform Success Leader for EY Fabric at EY, they have I have 13+ years of experience in the IT Industry across Samsung, PwC, EY, and Accenture, last 5 years of which has been primarily focused on building, maintaining and selling cloud - native platforms.

13:15 - 13:45: [Talk] Grafana Beyla: Zero-code distributed traces and metrics for your microservices with eBPF

Instrumenting applications for observability is often harder than it should be. Traditional approaches depend on language-specific libraries that vary widely in maturity, complexity, and support — making consistent instrumentation across services a real challenge.

Grafana Beyla changes that. Built on eBPF, Beyla provides zero code instrumentation for HTTP and gRPC services directly at the kernel level — no code changes, no language-specific libraries. It works seamlessly across a wide range of programming languages and frameworks, making it the easiest way to start your observability journey in modern microservices environments.

In this talk, we’ll explore how Beyla simplifies observability, and demonstrate its capabilities in real-world scenarios.

We’ll also share exciting news: Grafana Labs has donated Beyla to the OpenTelemetry project, and we're now collaborating on the new OpenTelemetry eBPF instrumentation SIG — joining forces to build a next generation eBPF instrumentation tool backed by the community.

Speaker: Suraj Sidh

Suraj is Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on Grafana Tempo, he also maintains Prometheus Blackbox Exporter.

Talk to him about Distributed Tracing, and on the personal side 3D priting, Coffee and Tea.

13:45 - 14:00: Close Off

Close off the event with thanks to host, speakers and attenddes. grab something to eat, ask your questions to speakers, network with the folks and close off the event.

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👮🏽‍♂️Entry requirements:

• Please carry at valid govt issued ID for entry (Govt. ID such as Aadhar card, driving license, etc.)
• Your Details will be share with the Host for the secuity reasons.
• By attending this meetup, you are consenting to Grafana's event terms and conditions
• All attendees at any event are required to comply with the event code of conduct set forth here: https://grafana.com/about/events/events-code-of-conduct/.

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