Name: Four data source plugins to add to your stack
Start: 2025-05-27T16:00:00.000Z
Location: Thinkport GmbH

Get ready for an exciting event with Grafana & Friends Pune: Happy Hours! Grafana Labs is all set to host its next happy hour in Pune in collaboration with InfraCloud Technologies. This session will bring together industry experts to discuss the latest trends and advancements in monitoring, observability, dashboarding, and much more.
**Agenda:**
Here's the detailed agenda of the meetup :

* **10:15 am- 10:30 am** \- Intro and Welcome
* **10:30 am- 11:15 am:**
**Session 1: 'eBPF-Powered Observability: Unlocking Deeper Insights with Cilium, Istio & Grafana'** by ***[Sarvadnya Jawle](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarvadnya-jawle/)*** *(DevOps Engineer at [Global Mobility Services](https://www.gmobility.com/))*
**About Session:** I’ll talk about why gaining rich connectivity observability for modern cloud native workloads has traditionally been extremely challenging, and how eBPF, an exciting new innovation in the Linux kernel led by the Isovalent team, has enabled a fundamentally better approach. We’ll talk about how the eBPF-powered Cilium project has risen to become the new de facto standard for secure and observable connectivity within Kubernetes environments and dig into several concrete examples of how the combination of Cilium’s rich connectivity observability data with Grafana Labs’ LGTM (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics) open source observability stack represents a major step forward in capability and simplicity for application owners and Kubernetes platform teams.
* **11:15 am - 12:00 pm:**
**Session 2: 'Enabling Unified Visibility Across Multi-Cloud Universe'** by ***[Farista Singh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/farista-singh/)*** (*Senior* *SRE at [InfraCloud Technologies](https://www.infracloud.io/))*
**About Session:** In this session, we’ll explore how to build a comprehensive observability platform using Go-based APIs, Cloud Build automation, and Grafana dashboards. The platform provides real-time visibility into infrastructure across GCP, AWS, and Azure, capturing key data such as running VMs, Docker images, public IPs, and the health status of critical components like Kafka and Yugabyte. Attendees will learn how this setup helps teams detect configuration mismatches, validate environment consistency, and troubleshoot deployment issues more efficiently.
* **12:00 pm - 12:30 pm:**
Networking, and Snacks

**Note:** This is an in-person event; no recordings will be available post-event.

*We look forward to meeting you in person for a morning filled with insightful sessions, networking, and shared experiences!* *For any questions or to express interest in future speaking opportunities, please contact the organizers.*

Grafana & Friends Pune

Ruturaj Kadikar

Ajinkya Sawant

TEJAS SANTOSH NALAWADE

Sahil Naik

Ronak Kothari

Ritik Gohate

Shrawan Saproo

Shripad Punde

Jayesh Wadile

Aunsh Khandekar

Pranay Salunkhe

Jainam

bhushangawande0605

Ruturaj Panditrao

Sagar Utekar 

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Manish Singh

Vishal Bidwe

Nikhil Wakalkar

prafull patil

Grafana & Friends Pune: Happy Hours!

InfraCloud Technologies Pune

We're thrilled to invite you to the second Grafana & Friends Lisboa Meetup! Many thanks to our friends from [Pipedrive](https://www.meetup.com/pipedrive-talks-lisbon/), who have kindly offered this joint event 🫶

In this event we will explore several aspects of software delivery, mainly focused on building reliable and secure products in ever-growing software companies.

We will have three talks, followed by a networking session. Come and have some 🍕 🍺 while exchanging ideas and engaging with the community.

You can RSVP through this event or in [Pipedrive's Meetup event](https://www.meetup.com/pipedrive-talks-lisbon/events/306640504/).

This event will be held in English 🇬🇧

***Talks & Speakers:***
**🔈 Talk 1 - Building Reliable Customer Experiences, The Pipedrive SRE Journey 🗺️**

* *[Nelson Gomes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonricardogomes/) \- Senior Software Engineer \- [Pipedrive](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pipedrive/)*
* *Pipedrive has an unique infrastructure, hundreds of thousands of customers, many more users, thousands of databases, serves billions of requests per month, executes billions of queries per month, a few years ago it was rare to have customers with a hundred users, now we have plenty of customers with hundreds of users. A tale about the challenges SRE team faced while handling such a massive infrastructure as the one Pipedrive has, solutions implemented and results obtained over the course of recent years and the impact SRE has made.*

***🔈 Talk 2 - Learnings and turnings of RBAC at Scale in Grafana* 👀**

* *[Eric Leijonmarck](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleijonmarck/) \- Software Engineer \- [Grafana Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/)*
* This talk is going to talk about what "access" actually means in the world of identity and access management (IAM). We will share our experience with setting up RBAC in Grafana – the good, the bad, and why we had to rethink our approach. Other big players like Netflix and Google design their access models. Basically, it's a real-world look at our journey with access and some cool ideas we've picked up along the way.

**🔈 Talk 3 - Handling Technical Challenges of Security Scanning in CI/CD 🧪**

* *[Tiago Mendo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagomendo/) \- Director of Product Strategy \- [Snyk](https://www.linkedin.com/company/snyk/)*
* Have you ever tried to add a web application security scanner to a CI/CD pipeline? I intend to draw attention to some of the challenges that teams experience when trying to automate security tests. The objective is to make the audience aware of these problems so that they can solve them as soon as possible, increasing the success of the tests, and the adoption by the teams, which in the end, will lead to greater security for the organization.

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***Agenda:***
18:00 – 🚪 Doors open and initial networking
18:30 – 🔈 Talk 1 by [Nelson Gomes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonricardogomes/), Senior Software Engineer at Pipedrive
19:00 – 🔈 Talk 2 by [Eric Leijonmarck](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleijonmarck/), Software Engineer at Grafana
19:30 – 🔈 Talk 3 by [Tiago Mendo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagomendo/), Director of Product Strategy at Snyk
20:00 – 🍕 Food, drinks and more networking!

**🏢 Location**

The Meetup will happen in the **Pipedrive Office at Saldanha**!
Address: [Av. Casal Ribeiro 16, 1000-013 Lisboa](https://maps.app.goo.gl/zJVUCY7vJG7vuPvt5)
The presentations will start promptly at 18:30.
The Meetup will be photographed and recorded, so it's important to let us know when you arrive if you don't want to be included.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

Grafana & Friends Lisboa

Eric Leijonmarck

Imma Valls

André Martins

José Lourenço

Pedro Pessoa

Eugénio Peshkov

Adrien Bestel

Daniel Pinto

Ana Martins

Dani Heredia

Rajesh Kumar

Gurdeep Kumar

David Frazao

The Quest for Engineering Excellence: Reliability, Observability & Testing

Pipedrive

We're thrilled to invite you to our next 🌸 Grafana & Friends Amsterdam Meetup 🌸

Many thanks to our good friends at [HCS Company](https://www.hcs-company.com/), who have kindly offered to host us at their Amsterdam office and share their experience 🫶

📕 **Agenda**

**17:30** Open doors.
**18:00** Food & Drinks
**18:30** Meetup starts: talk & workshop

🗣️ **Talk**
**Monitoring and Managing Edge Devices at Scale with Grafana: The ProRail Approach - [Ho Yeung](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cshy/)**

This talk presents how ProRail has implemented a scalable and efficient monitoring solution for its IOT2050 edge devices using Grafana and containerized services. Attendees will learn how system metrics, Docker container statuses, and MQTT data are collected from edge devices and visualized in real-time dashboards, enabling both operational oversight and historical analysis. The session covers the integration of tools such as Grafana Agent, Alloy, Node Exporter, Mosquitto, and Node-RED—deployed through Portainer—to build a resilient monitoring infrastructure. We’ll also showcase interactive Grafana dashboards, including a nationwide map of edge devices, and explain how alerting mechanisms help detect issues early and reduce downtime. This session is ideal for observability engineers, systems specialists, and anyone interested in edge monitoring and infrastructure visibility at scale.

**🎙️ Ho Yeung** is currently working at ProRail, focusing on the development of an observability platform designed to streamline the collection and processing of measurement data. His work involves integrating diverse measurement devices into a system, automating data validation processes, and leading the visualization of data using Grafana. He collaborates with end-users and technical teams to ensure effective data presentation and decision-making, configuring Grafana in a Kubernetes environment.

🛠️ **Workshop**
**Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Mayhem: An Interactive Observability Adventure** - **[Imma Valls](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imma-valls/)**

This is a hands-on introductory session on observability. Through an engaging text-based adventure, you'll learn to diagnose and resolve issues in your systems. This workshop covers essential observability tools —metrics, logs, and traces — and shows how to leverage them effectively for real-world troubleshooting and insights in your application.
Bring your laptop for this session. Docker and git or a browser to run this on a killercoda playground are prerequisites. You can also work in pairs.

**🎙️ Imma Valls** is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs. Imma enjoys automating stuff, and anything that helps get apps from development to production. She also loves sharing with local communities and helping them connect and thrive. She co-organizes Grafana’s meetups in Barcelona and Madrid, Cloud Native Barcelona meetups, and Software Crafters Barcelona. She also volunteers as a coach and board member at the TechFems Barcelona community and collaborates with Technovation Girls as a Judge.

🏢 **Location**
**HCS Company**: Anthony Fokkerweg 61\, Amsterdam \| https://maps\.app\.goo\.gl/LPMZKBzB7MutGrZb6\.
The HCS Company office is easily accessible by both car and public transport. You can park your car on their premises; ample parking is beyond the barrier. If you come by public transport, you can get off at the Henk Sneevlietweg metro station; from there, it is a 10-minute walk.

We are looking forward to seeing you 🎉!

Grafana & Friends Amsterdam

Alexandra Vargas

Benoit Schipper

Marcel Kerker

Ho-Yeung

Arash Haghighat

Pouya Dolatabadi

Valery Bitsoev

Behrad Eslamifar

Luca

Georgiy Mogelashvili

Ruslan Kuleshov

Sahand Abbasi

Alex Oanca

ehsan khodadadi

Maksim Shevchenko

Vitaly

Rajesh Gunasekaran

Nikolay

Andrei Margaev

Grafana & Friends Amsterdam @ HCS Company

HCS Company

Join us for an observability-focused meetup in NYC! This event is an opportunity to join the folks from Grafana and Embrace for an evening of talks about OpenTelemetry 🔭

📋 Agenda

🎉 6:00 Introductions & food
Kick off the evening drinks and food 🌮

🎙️ 6:30 Talks from Mark Covello (Grafana Labs) and David Rifkin (Embrace)

**OTel me more! A practical guide for adopting OpenTelemetry**

💬 7:30 Networking and Q&As

🔚 8:00 The End

The event is well-suited for DevOps and Site-Reliability engineers, and we welcome those who are new to Grafana, OpenTelemetry or observability. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Grafana & Friends NYC

Grafana Community

Osaid Khan

floriatsui

Mark Bauer

Mehboob Alam*

Nera

Rick

John Wroge

Sudhanshu Pandey

Yevhenii Padafa

Ashok

Dan Shoop

Nitya Yerramallu

Maxim Rybalov

Igor Goldberg

Tara

Delphine Tinkham

Dave Aronowitz

Rodolfo Nunez

Grafana NYC/Embrace: OTel me more! A practical guide for adopting OpenTelemetry

The Farm Soho

Join us for a lightning Kafka and observability-focused Meetup hosted at Thinkport GmbH! This event is a unique opportunity to gain insights into Grafana and Kafka stacks.
Enjoy a chance to network with fellow enthusiasts and have some delicious pizza!
**📋 Agenda**
**🎉 18:00 Introductions & snacking time**
Kick off the evening with a warm welcome, and some 🍺 cold drinks!

**🎙️ 18:30 Talk:**
**💣 3 data source plugins to add to your stack after this talk**

* ***Description:*** Grafana is not just about visualizing metrics, logs, and traces. It’s about bringing your data – wherever it lives, whatever it is – into one spot. Imagine bringing together data about deployments, cloud costs, and web accessibility! In this lightning talk, Grafana Labs Developer Advocate Usman Ahmad will share three open source data source plugins from the Grafana catalog and demonstrate how you can use them to enrich your existing dashboards.
* ***Speakers:*** [Syed Usman Ahmad,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux/) Senior Developer Advocate @ Grafana Labs
Usman is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack. As a DevRel he contributes to Documentation, creating video tutorials, blog posts to help Grafana Labs in its product growth and also improve the user experience.

**🎙️ 19:00 Talk:**
**💣** **Real-Time Kafka Visualisation in Grafana**

* ***Description:*** In this talk, we’ll introduce [the Kafka Data Source plugin ](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/hamedkarbasi93-kafka-datasource/)we developed for Grafana, which enables users to query and visualise Kafka topic data directly in their dashboards—without the need for intermediate storage or external services. We'll share how the idea came about, how we collaborated with the Grafana community and developers to bring it to life, and the challenges we faced along the way. We'll also discuss our vision for the plugin’s future and its role in the evolving observability landscape.
* ***Speakers:*** [Hamed Karbasi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamed-karbasi/), Senior Data Engineer @ [0+X](https://0x.se/)
Hamed is a data engineer at 0+X, focused on large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines. Most recently at Snapp!, he scaled the event-driven infrastructure, redesigned the data warehouse, and optimized pipelines for greater availability and scalability. A passionate open-source contributor, he actively works on Grafana and Kubernetes on [GitHub](https://github.com/hoptical), and shares insights via [Medium](https://medium.com/@hoptical) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@hoptical).

**🍕 19:30 Pizza and Networking**
**🎙️ 20:15 Talk:**
**💣** **TBA**

* ***Description:*** TBA
* ***Speakers:*** Teodora Farcas, Solutions Engineering Consultant, Confluent

**💬 20:45 Networking and Q&As**
**🔚 21:30 The End**
The event is well-suited for Software engineers, and we welcome people who are new to Kafka, Grafana or observability. We look forward to seeing you all there!

#Grafana #Observability #Loki #IncidentManagement #DevOps #SRE

Grafana and Friends Frankfurt

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Vladimir Vladimirov

Junaid A

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Reyhaneh Kordi

Sara

Sergejs Janulonoks

Kamal Galrani

derjohn

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Shubham Sharma

hamed.karbasi.93

hamed.ghahremani88

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