Name: Operational AI: Real-Time Analytics in Production (Seattle)
Start: 2026-06-24T01:00:00.000Z
Location: 1204 Minor Ave

**There is still capacity in the event!** 🎉 **You just need to add yourself to WAITLIST - and we will review your registration and confirm you!** Just because the venue capacity is limited, to ensure the best experience & relevance for the community, the registrations are not auto-confirmed - but managed this way. Without a previous confirmation email, we won't be able to let you in! 😢
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Join your local observability community for an evening of open source inspiration, real-world stories, and meaningful connections - all in a laid-back, meetup-style setting.

This event will feature a recap of the [GrafanaCON](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/) keynote, combined with fresh voices from your own community.

Grafana team members walk through Grafana 13 and the most impactful improvements across the platform. Learn about how Grafana is becoming easier and safer to operate as production infrastructure, with updates that improve configuration management, recovery, and long-term maintainability. The session showcases significant advances in core user workflows, including more flexible and powerful dashboards, with improved performance.

Whether you’re building dashboards, scaling Kubernetes, contributing to open source, or just getting started - this meetup is for you!

**🎟 Free to attend**
🍕 Pizza + soft drinks provided
🤝 Built for connection
💡 Real talks from real practitioners
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**AGENDA:**
**17:30 - 18:00**: Arrivals and small snacks

**18:00 - 18:30:** GrafanaCON recap presentation - by **Grafana Labs** team: **Jára Benc,** Staff Software Engineer & **Juraj Michalek**, Senior Solutions Architect

**18:30 - 18:45:** Q & A

**18:45 - 19:40:** Community talks

***1\. "Who gets paged? Unit\-testing Grafana notification policies\.*" by Martin Fryč, Staff Infrastructure Engineer at SentinelOne**

\*Grafana notification policies decide who wakes up at 3am, and a single mistyped label can silently reroute an alert into the wrong team's branch. Grafana 13 and grafana-operator let teams own their slice of the policy tree, but Alertmanager still evaluates one merged tree, so a too-broad matcher in team A's subtree can quietly swallow team B's alerts. This talk shows a small Go tool that treats routing as code: declarative "given these labels, expect these receivers" assertions, run in CI against the assembled policy. We will walk through the routing semantics, real misroutings the tool can catch, and why multi-tree provisioning makes this test layer more necessary, not less.

**2\. "*Using OpenTelemetry in development of resin 3D printers*" by** **Pavel Štrobl**

\*In this talk we will take a look how it's possible to get metrics from upcoming resin printers from Prusa Research using OpenTelemetry, why it was not possible to use Prometheus Remote Write and the quirks while getting metrics from hardware constrained environment.

**19:40 - 21:30**: Discussion and pizza

Note that by registering for this event you consent to related event & product communications from Grafana Labs and agree to our[ code of conduc](https://grafana.com/events/events-code-of-conduct/)t
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**​PLEASE NOTE**: at the SentinelOne office, in line with the venue security requirements - all meetup attendees will be required be verified by their\*\* ID card (or passport\*\*), also to\*\* sign a generic ND\*\*A used for all office visitors and to wear a visitor badge with their name during the whole event - to be able to attend the meetup

Grafana & Friends Prague

Jakob Cuber

Juraj Michálek

Vaclav Kotyk

Evgeny Fedorov

zigi

 Rob Knight

Pavel Štrobl

Jan Škrle

Michal

Yehor Salo

Bohdan Martyniv

vojtastarec

Or Bar

Oleksii Kraievyi

erozaxx

Libor Suchý

Jakub Balous

ABHIJIT BHOWMICK

Martin Junk

GrafanaCON Local meetup: Prague

SentinelOne CZ

***[REGISTER ON LUMA](https://luma.com/q3jx5f55)***
​AI demos are easy. Building AI systems that actually work in production - in real time, under pressure, with messy data and real users - is where things get interesting.

At this [OSA Community](https://osacom.io/?utm_source=luma) meetup, engineers and practitioners will share how they’re building real-time analytics and AI systems at production scale: streaming pipelines, real-time databases, feature stores, event-driven architectures, and the open-source technologies making it all possible.

If you work on data infrastructure, AI applications, observability, streaming systems, or just like hearing how modern systems are really built, you’ll fit right in.
​Food and drink are provided!
***[REGISTER ON LUMA](https://luma.com/q3jx5f55)***

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# ​Speakers

* ​Robert Hodges, CEO @ [Altinity](https://altinity.com/?utm_source=luma)
* ​Éamon Ryan, Senior Principal Field Engineer @ [Grafana](https://grafana.com/?utm_source=luma)
* ​James Greenhill @ [PostHog](https://posthog.com/?utm_source=luma)

***

# ​**​​Agenda**

* ​**6 pm** \- Networking
* ​**6:15 - 8:00 pm** \- Talks
* ​**8:00 - 9:00 pm** \- Networking

***

# ​**​​​​Description of the Talks**

## ​Is It Safe? Letting AI Touch Production Data Without The Tears

​**Speaker**: Robert Hodges, CEO @ Altinity
​**Abstract**: Let's talk about AI safety. On June 2nd our first support case arrived in which a user's AI agent deleted a production table. It's a moment we've long anticipated. This talk presents practical ways to give AI access to production data while avoiding the dangers. We'll focus on three specific problems: ensuring only authorized agents access data, preventing accidental loss, and keeping proprietary information out of hosted LLMs. The solutions range from here-and-now approaches like OAuth and MCP to long-range opportunities like local models. Letting AI agents range free over data is the dream. Let's do the engineering to make it real.
​

## ​**AI Observability in Grafana: Instrument, Explore, and Evaluate Your AI Agents**

​**Speaker:** Éamon Ryan, Senior Principal Field Engineer @ Grafana
​**Abstract**: ​​​AI agents are shipping to production faster than ever — but how do you know they're working correctly? In this session, we'll walk through AI Observability in Grafana: how to instrument your agents with a few lines of code, explore conversations and multi-agent pipelines, track cost and performance, set up online evaluations to continuously monitor quality, and configure guards to catch issues before they reach the model.
​
​Other talks - stay tuned!

Grafana & Friends Bay Area

Grafana Community

Operational AI: Real-Time Analytics in Production (SF)

2360 3rd St

Join us for the June edition of Grafana and Friends Kurnool Meetup, where Observability practitioners and developers come together to share insights, best practices, and real-world experiences in Microservices world.

📅 **Date:** **20th June, 2026**
📍 **Location:** Online link will be updated here 2 days before the event.
🚀 **RSVP Timings:** Open till the start of the event

**What to Expect:**

**Who Should Attend?**
Whether you’re a SRE, DevOps Engineer or just getting started with observability, this meetup is for you!
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**🕒 Schedule:**
**03:00 PM - 03:15 PM -** Check In and Kick off the event
**Speaker: Kedar - Lead SRE - TransUnion**
Seasoned SRE and DevOps enthusiast. Sharing knowledge and contributing to the Open Source community through technical blogs. Prometheus Certified Associate and Google Professional Cloud Architect.

**Speaker: Manjunath - Senior DevOps Engineer - Redica Systems**
An adaptable professional who specializes in microservices platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS & Linux Operating System

**03:15 PM - 04:00 PM -** [Talk] AI in Observability - Speaker: Manjunath

**04:00 PM - 05:00 PM -** [Talk] Introduction to OpenTelemetry - Speaker: Kedar

Close off the event with thanks to the host, speakers and attendees.
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Grafana & Friends Kurnool

Manjunath D

Kedarnath Grandhe

gaganyarramsetty

Reena 

Surya Tejess

Grafana & Friends Kurnool June 2026 Meetup [Online]

Online event

We’re back with the new **Grafana ❤️‍🔥OpenTelemetry Community Call**!

**[OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/)** has officially **[graduated from the CNCF](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-graduates/)**! In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we are celebrating this milestone by looking back at the project's journey, evaluating the current state of its signals, and discussing what this long-term stability means for the future. We will also explore what lies ahead on the project roadmap and where the community needs contributors next.

**Guests**:

* [Marylia Gutierrez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryliag/)
* [Ted Young](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-young/)
* [Tiffany Hrabusa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-hrabusa/)

**Hosts**:

* [Nicole van der Hoeven](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvanderhoeven/)
* [Tiffany Jernigan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyfayj/)
* [Imma Valls](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imma-valls/)

This event will be livestreamed on YouTube and published on the same link after the fact: **[https://www.youtube.com/live/P9CfVEGwcgo](https://www.youtube.com/live/P9CfVEGwcgo)**

Join the conversation, bring your questions, and if it sparks something for you, jump in and help us build and improve OpenTelemetry together.

Grafana & Friends Virtual Meetup Group

Imma Valls

cubakid

Thomas Casteleyn

 OpenTelemetry Graduation (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OTel Community Call #8)

***[REGISTER ON LUMA](https://luma.com/59wq0z0j)***

AI demos are easy. Building AI systems that actually work in production - in real time, under pressure, with messy data and real users - is where things get interesting.

At this [OSA Community](https://osacom.io/?utm_source=luma) meetup, engineers and practitioners will share how they’re building real-time analytics and AI systems at production scale: streaming pipelines, real-time databases, feature stores, event-driven architectures, and the open-source technologies making it all possible.

If you work on data infrastructure, AI applications, observability, streaming systems, or just like hearing how modern systems are really built, you’ll fit right in.
​Food and drink are provided!

***[REGISTER ON LUMA](https://luma.com/59wq0z0j)***

***

# ​Speakers

* ​Robert Hodges, CEO @ [Altinity](https://altinity.com/?utm_source=luma)
* ​Coleman Rollins, Staff Software Engineer @ [Grafana](https://grafana.com/?utm_source=luma)
* ​Brandon Wilcox, Director of Engineering @ [Gamebeast](https://www.gamebeast.gg/?utm_source=luma)
* ​Elvis Kahoro, Developer Advocate @ [dltHub](https://dlthub.com/?utm_source=luma) and Jess Wang, DevRel @ [Braintrust](https://www.usebraintrust.com/?utm_source=luma)

***

# ​**​​Agenda**

* ​**6 pm** \- Networking
* ​**6:15 - 8:00 pm** \- Talks
* ​**8:00 - 9:00 pm** \- Networking

***

# ***[REGISTER ON LUMA](https://luma.com/59wq0z0j)***

# ​**​​​​Description of the Talks**

## ​Is It Safe? Letting AI Touch Production Data Without The Tears

​**Speaker**: Robert Hodges, CEO @ Altinity
​**Abstract**: Let's talk about AI safety. On June 2nd our first support case arrived in which a user's AI agent deleted a production table. It's a moment we've long anticipated. This talk presents practical ways to give AI access to production data while avoiding the dangers. We'll focus on three specific problems: ensuring only authorized agents access data, preventing accidental loss, and keeping proprietary information out of hosted LLMs. The solutions range from here-and-now approaches like OAuth and MCP to long-range opportunities like local models. Letting AI agents range free over data is the dream. Let's do the engineering to make it real.
​

## ​AI Observability in Grafana: Instrument, Explore, and Evaluate Your AI Agents

​**Speaker**: Coleman Rollins, Staff Software Engineer @ Grafana
​**Abstract**: AI agents are shipping to production faster than ever — but how do you know they're working correctly? In this session, we'll walk through AI Observability in Grafana: how to instrument your agents with a few lines of code, explore conversations and multi-agent pipelines, track cost and performance, set up online evaluations to continuously monitor quality, and configure guards to catch issues before they reach the model.
​

## ​Bringing Game Developers Closer to their Players with AI and Analytics

​**Speaker**: Brandon Wilcox, Director of Engineering @ Gamebeast
​**Abstract**: Players generate more insights than developers can ever discover. We'll show how our LLM pipeline surfaces the pain points, complaints, and praise hidden across millions of player conversations - wherever they happen - and grounds all of it in hard data.
​

## ​What is your agent doing? Making sense of agent traces

​**Speakers**: Elvis Kahoro, Developer Advocate @ [dltHub](https://dlthub.com/?utm_source=luma) and Jess Wang, DevRel @ [Braintrust](https://www.usebraintrust.com/?utm_source=luma)
​**Abstract**: Agents are sprawling; your product includes a chatbot, Cursor helps write code, experimentations are done within an LLM Observability platform, Gemini transcribes sales calls, and Claude Cowork automates admin tasks. The CFO wants to know how much agents cost, the CEO wants to know the ROI of your 50+ agents, and engineering leadership wants to know how to improve them. This talk is a short DIY on how to locally ingest agent telemetry into your warehouse and transform it into analytics

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