Name: Grafana & Friends Brno #1 - The Inaugural Meetup!
Start: 2026-03-19T17:00:00.000Z
Location: OpenSSL Corporation

Join us for a special joint Meetup of Grafana & Friends, and Confluent!
This session will feature a series of talks centered around observability, and data streaming security.

**Agenda.**
🕕 **18:00 \- 18:30 \| Arrival & Check\-in**
Kick off the evening with a warm welcome, and some 🍺 cold drinks!
🕡 **18:30 \- 18:45 \| Welcome & Opening Remarks**
*Grafana & Friends Frankfurt, & Confluent*
🎙️ **18:45 \- 19:15 \| Talk 1**
💣 **Migration of Dashboards & Folders to Grafana Unified Search & Storage**

* **Description:** With the next major release (Grafana v13), we are migrating Dashboards and Folders (with more resources to follow) to Grafana Unified Storage. This is part of our journey to improve multi-tenancy in Cloud and transition to the Grafana App Platform using Kubernetes-like APIs. In this talk, we cover some architectural changes introduced with Grafana v13 related to our cloud journey to multi-tenancy and what those changes mean for OSS and On-Premise customers today and in the future.
* **Speaker:** Rafael Paulovic, Senior Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs
* **Bio:** Rafael Paulovic is a Brazilian expat living in Europe since 2017 and a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs. He brings experience from leading technology companies, having built critical factory software and AI agents at Tesla and previously served as a Product Owner at SAP.

🎙️ **19:15 \- 19:45 \| Talk 2**
💣 **Securing Data in Motion the Right Way**

* **Description:** Data streaming is powering everything from fraud detection to order fulfillment. But as the role of streaming grows, so does the risk — because many streaming platforms, like Apache Kafka, aren’t secure by default. We'll walk through what can go wrong and cover the key pillars of securing a streaming system: encryption, access control, monitoring, and key management. We’ll also look at how observability tools like Grafana help detect anomalies and potential data exfiltration in real time.
* **Speaker:** Olena Kutsenko, Sr. Developer Advocate @ Confluent
* **Bio:** Olena is a Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent and a recognized expert in data streaming and analytics. With two decades of experience in software engineering, she has built mission-critical applications, led high-performing teams, and driven large-scale technology adoption at industry leaders like Nokia, HERE Technologies, AWS, and Aiven.
A passionate advocate for real-time data processing and AI-driven applications, Olena empowers developers and organizations to use the power of streaming data. She is an AWS Community Builder, a dedicated mentor, and a volunteer instructor at a nonprofit tech school, helping to shape the next generation of engineers.
As an international speaker and thought leader, Olena regularly presents at top global conferences, sharing deep technical insights and hands-on expertise. Whether through her talks, workshops, or content, she is committed to making complex technologies accessible and inspiring innovation in the developer community.

🎙️ **19:45 \- 20:15 \| Talk 3**
💣 **Empowering Developers: Meet Confluent for VS Code**

* **Description:** Software engineers spend their days context-switching between IDEs, CLI tools, web consoles, and documentation. Context-switching doesn't just slow you down—it degrades the quality of your work. What if you could interact with your data streaming resources from within your IDE?

In this session, we'll introduce Confluent for VS Code—a powerful extension that brings Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud directly into your development workflow. In a nutshell, you'll learn how to:

* Connect seamlessly to local and remote Kafka clusters, Confluent Cloud, and Confluent Platform environments without leaving your editor
* Explore your data in real-time by browsing topics, consuming messages, and producing test data with schema-aware serialization
* Manage schemas with integrated Schema Registry support for Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema
* Build stream processing applications with Flink and the built-in language server

We'll walk through real-world scenarios—from bootstrapping a new project to troubleshooting production issues—demonstrating how tight IDE integration reduces friction and accelerates development. Whether you're building event-driven microservices, streaming ETL pipelines, or real-time analytics, you'll see how Confluent for VS Code accelerates your development workflow.

* **Speaker:** Stefan Sprenger, Staff Software Developer I, Confluent
* **Bio:** Stefan works as a staff software engineer at Confluent. Previously, he co-founded DataCater, a startup in the data streaming space. He has more than ten years of experience in software and data engineering and researched database systems on modern hardware during his PhD studies.

Grafana & Friends Frankfurt

Mehrshad Lotfi

Krishna Mohan 

Mehrdad Hedayati

Basil Sattler

Aißmann

Ostap Smolynets

Adityakumar Chaurasia

Vusal

Florian M

derjohn

Neel

Manuel Vogel

Malte Poth

bartnudel01

rafael.paulovic

Amir Babaei

Nooria Shahzad

Grafana x Confluent Joint Meetup: Observability, Security & Streaming

Computacenter AG & Co. oHG

Time for another Grafana & Friends Meetup, together with the [Stockholm Apache Kafka®](https://www.meetup.com/stockholm-apache-kafka-meetup-by-confluent/) and [Kong/Stockholm](https://www.meetup.com/kong-stockholm/) communities, hosted by [Magello](https://magello.se/) 🎉

📕 **Agenda**
**17:00 - 17:25:** Drop-in, food/drink-grabbing and mingle
**17:25 - 17:30:** Introductions
**17:30 - 18:00:** Talk 1
**18:00 - 18:20:** Mingle
**18:20 - 18:50:** Talk 2
**18:50 - 20:00:** Mingle

1️⃣ **"Beyond API Management: Building AI-Enabled Event Streams with Kong Event Gateway, Kafka and MCP"** by **[Johannes Brännström](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesbrannstrom/)**, Staff Solutions Engineer at [Kong](https://konghq.com/)
In the era of LLMs and real-time data, the gateway’s role has shifted from a passive "traffic cop" to an active platform enabler. In this session, we’ll move beyond the basics and live-build a real-time, event-driven chat system. We’ll show you how to:

* **Architect the Backbone**: Use Kafka for high-throughput event streaming.
* **Secure the Flow**: Implement robust Auth/Z using Kong to protect your event streams.
* **Give AI "Hands"**: Integrate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to allow a chatbot to perform actions, like fetching Konnect metrics or generating memes, directly from the stream.
* **Simplify the Complexity**: See how Kong isn’t just another layer of friction, but a tool that makes orchestrating these complex, multi-protocol systems significantly easier.

2️⃣ **"Visualizing Your Data Lake with Grafana", [Imma Valls](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imma-valls)**, Staff Developer Advocate at [Grafana Labs](https://grafana.com).
In this brief talk, we’ll walk through how to get started with Grafana’s open source platform to explore and understand your data lake. We’ll cover how to connect to your data, no matter where it lives. How to craft queries that turn raw information into clear, compelling visualizations, and finally, set up alerts and annotations so you’re always in the know when something important changes in your data lake.

**📍Location**
[Magello](https://magello.se/) office: Västgötagatan 2\, 118 27 Stockholm \| [https://maps.app.goo.gl/FPhEqLjttBHEneEt8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/FPhEqLjttBHEneEt8)
Take the stairs to the left after entering the building. If anyone is late, dial "Patrik Magello Group" on the door phone.

**Food**
There will be vegan/vegetarian food, and beverages at the event; if you have any allergies or other food preferences, please let us know at least 48 hours before the event!

**Photo and video**
We may take photos and record videos during the event. If you prefer not to be captured on camera, please inform the photographer when arriving.
If you feel sick, stay at home.

We are looking forward to seeing you 🎉!

Grafana & Friends Stockholm

Imma Valls

Tobias Skarhed

Nima

Johan Eriksson

Anand

Anton

Adnan Gohar

フランコAira

Kevin Manavadaria

Emil Tullstedt

Jenny

Edwin S

Oskar Tengberg

Bulut Bulgu

César Soto Valero

Patrik B

Johan Carlsson

Fredric Rosengren

Slawomir Ziolkowski

Grafana&Friends 🤝 Apache Kafka® 🤝 Kong

Magello, våning 3

🚀 Bienvenue à l’édition de Mars de notre meetup Grafana & Friends France !

Nous sommes ravis de vous inviter au prochain meetup Grafana qui se déroulera à Station F, à Paris, via notre partenariat avec AWS – un immense merci à eux pour leur accueil chaleureux !
Rejoignez-nous pour des discussions techniques, des pizzas et des boissons bien fraîches !

**\*\*\***
Les portes ouvrent à 18h30, et les présentations débuteront à 19h !

**Au programme :**

🎙️ **Vos modèles ML en production sont-ils sous contrôle ?** *Fiabilité, conformité, sécurité : construire un dashboard Grafana qui couvre les trois.*
Déployer un modèle en production, tout le monde sait faire. Le garder sous contrôle —(fiabilité, coûts, conformité et sécurité ) c'est une autre histoire. Prompt injection, model evasion, data poisoning : les menaces sur les workloads ML sont réelles et largement sous-monitorées. Dans ce talk, on construit ensemble un dashboard Grafana qui couvre les trois dimensions, avec des alertes concrètes sur des patterns d'attaque détectables en temps réel.

**Structure :**

1. **Le problème** : Un modèle en prod n'est pas une API classique : non-déterminisme, dégradation silencieuse, coûts variables… et surface d'attaque spécifique
2. **Les métriques qui comptent** : Latence, token consumption, drift detection côté fiabilité. Puis la couche sécu : détection d'anomalies sur les inputs, taux de refus anormaux, exfiltration de données via les outputs
3. **Démo live** : Dashboard Grafana avec trois volets : santé du modèle, coûts, et panneau sécurité avec alertes sur des patterns suspects
4. **AI Act & NIS2 : pourquoi ça va devenir obligatoire** : Exigences de logging, traçabilité et monitoring des systèmes AI à haut risque. Ceux qui monitorent déjà ont une longueur d'avance
5. **Ce qu'on ne peut pas encore faire** (2 min) : Limites actuelles et pistes ouvertes

**Speaker**: Samuel Desseaux, CTO spécialisé en observabilité industrielle et sécurité des systèmes critiques.

🎙️ **OpenTelemetry à grande échelle : corréler les signaux et stratégie de sampling**
Déployer OpenTelemetry à grande échelle pose rapidement des défis de volume, de coûts et de lisibilité des données. Lorsque traces, métriques et logs se multiplient, il devient essentiel de conserver les bons signaux tout en préservant leur corrélation. Dans ce talk, nous verrons comment mettre en place des stratégies de sampling adaptées et comment maintenir la corrélation entre les signaux pour garder une observabilité exploitable dans des systèmes distribués à fort volume. À travers des exemples d’architecture et des bonnes pratiques, nous explorerons comment construire une pipeline OpenTelemetry scalable et efficace.

**Speaker**: Alain Pham, Principal Solutions Engineer chez Grafana Labs

💬 **20h/20h30** : Q&As et Networking
🔚 **21h30** : The End

Nos meetups sont ouverts à tous, débutants ou experts. Au plaisir de pouvoir vous y retrouver !

#Grafana #Observability #DevOps #SRE

Grafana & Friends France

Valentine Fauchard

oliviermarin92

fouzia.ouaj

Samuel Desseaux

khac binh su

Sébastien

Hamidou TESSILIMI

Ali Tahir

nhailakaoutar

Pierre Chrislin Dorival

sambath kumar

Stephan Gerard

François Dorleans

Hugo VAN

Jean michel Meulien

Gheribi Hamadi

Alphonse Binam

Yannick Thebault

hanna

Omid Gosha

Grafana & Friends France : édition de Mars chez Station F

Station F

Join us for Grafana talks mixed with snacks and community conversations!

Schedule
18:00-18:30
Welcome, snacks, drinks and networking
18:30-19:00
**From Service to Line Number: Getting Started with Continuous Profiling** by Christian Simon, Principal Engineer at Grafana

Logs, metrics, and traces tell you which service is slow or expensive. Profiles tell you which code path - down to the line number. With profiling now part of OpenTelemetry, and the eBPF profiler requiring zero instrumentation, there's never been a better time to add this missing piece to your observability stack.

1\. Value of Continuous Profiling
2\. How do you set up continuous profiling \(Pyroscope \+ OTel eBPF profiler\)
3\. Deriving insights from Profiles using Grafana Assistant
4\. Demo

19:00-19:40 **My Cool Grafana Dashboard Show and Tell - Lightning Talks**

**Lightning talks:**

**1\. What if Your Career Had Metrics?**
**Roxana Turc, Software Engineer at BNY**, will show how she used Grafana to build a **career dashboard—tracking learning, work, and growth**, and why seeing her progress this way changed how she thinks about development.

**2\. Using Grafana for Visualising IoT Air Quality Sensor Data** by John Sinha, Lead Technical Business Analyst

IoT air quality sensors produce noisy, high-resolution time series data, but how you visualise it determines what you actually see. This lightning talk walks through a Grafana dashboard designed to **present environmental data clearly, covering time and value scaling choices, linear vs. log views, and practical denoising techniques.** See how small visualisation decisions can dramatically change the story your sensor data tells.

3. **How I discovered pigeons sabotaging my project with Kafka and Grafana** \- by Hugh Evans\, Developer Advocate at Aiven
Learn how how a lightweight Kafka + Grafana observability stack helped Hugh **catch his avian adversaries** and iterate on a hobby project **without enterprise-scale complexity or costs**.

Grafana & Friends London

Ewa M.

Iain Adams

Šejla

John Walker

Steven

Wisdom Matthew

Killian Kavanagh

Samyak Luitel

Timotei Vlad Cipariu

Anas Abdulrazzaq

Kishore

Naveed Ausaf

chandra bhanu dixit

abba mohammed

Martin Costello

Shehab

Faidh

Gil Baggio

Sandeep Sandy

Ejimofor Nwoye

Grafana & Friends London - March edition

123 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9LG

We’re excited to invite you to the very first Grafana & Friends meetup in Brno! 🚀

Brno has a great tech community, and it’s about time we brought Grafana & Friends here. Whether you’re deep into observability, just getting started with Grafana, or simply curious about open source monitoring - this is your meetup.

A massive thank you to our friends at **OpenSSL** for generously hosting us at their Brno office for this inaugural event! 🫶

🗓️ **March 19, 2026, 18:00 - 21:00**
📍 **OpenSSL office**, Kotlářská 989/51a, Brno

**Agenda**
18:00 - 18:30 - Welcome, snacks, drinks & networking
18:30 - 18:40 - Meetup introduction & a few words from our host
18:40 - 19:15 — Talk 1: “How We Use Grafana at OpenSSL” — Dmitri Misharov (🇬🇧 in English)
19:15 - 19:25 — Short break
19:25 - 20:00 — Talk 2: “Observability at Scale at Seznam.cz” — Martin Chodur (🇨🇿 in Czech)
20:00 - 21:00 - Beers & Networking 🍻

🎙️ **Speakers**

1️⃣ **Dmitri Misharov** — OpenSSL (🇬🇧 in English)
**How We Use Grafana at OpenSSL: From Performance Regressions to Infrastructure Monitoring**

Dmitri will share how the OpenSSL team leverages Grafana across multiple areas of their work — catching performance regressions in the OpenSSL library, tracking GitHub issues KPIs, monitoring OpenSSL library downloads, and keeping an eye on their infrastructure. A great look behind the scenes of one of the most critical open source projects in the world.

2️⃣ **Martin Chodur** — Seznam.cz (🇨🇿 in Czech)
**Our Observability Setup at Scale**

Martin will walk us through how Seznam.cz — one of the largest Czech tech companies — runs their observability stack at serious scale, with a setup tightly integrated with GitOps. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to run monitoring infrastructure at this level, this is the talk for you.

💡 **What is Grafana & Friends?**
Grafana & Friends is a worldwide community of meetups bringing together people who are passionate about observability, open source, and building great developer tooling. With 78 groups across 33 countries and over 34,000 members, we’re one of the largest observability communities out there. From Zurich to Kolkata, London to San Francisco, Stockholm to Pune — and now **Brno**!

Each meetup is a mix of technical talks, real-world stories, and plenty of time to grab a drink and connect with fellow engineers. Some events feature deep-dive presentations, others are more casual — but they all share the same spirit: learn something new, meet great people, and have fun.

🍕 **What to expect**

* Two talks from speakers working on interesting projects in the observability and infrastructure space
* Snacks and drinks to kick things off
* Plenty of time for Q&A and open discussion after the talks
* Cold beers and networking to close out the evening
* Stickers!

Our meetups are open to everyone — seasoned SREs, platform engineers, developers, students, or anyone curious about how modern monitoring and observability work. No prior Grafana experience needed. Just bring yourself and your curiosity!

We’re looking forward to meeting the Brno tech community. See you there! 🎉

Grafana & Friends Brno

Andrej Kiripolsky

Jára Benc

Fusakla Martin Chodúr

Tomáš Kozák

Ivana

Iryna Kopyl

marcelfrajt

Alaine Vicedor

Oleksii

Zuzana Majercakova

Michail Ivanov

Martin Cetkovský

Grafana & Friends Brno #1 - The Inaugural Meetup!

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