Name: Grafana & Friends Munich
Start: 2025-07-23T16:30:00.000Z
Location: QAware GmbH

After a long hiatus, the Grafana & Friends Meetup returns!

As always, we'll have two talks, food & drinks as well as plenty of time for you to network with other participants.

*If you're interested in holding a talk at this or the next meetup, either submit your idea through the [Community Contribution Form](https://grafana-labs.typeform.com/community) or just talk to us in person at the next event. We always love hearing about interesting topics from the community!*

**Agenda:**

* 18:00 - 18:30: Arrival & Networking
* 18:30 - 19:00 **My journey as an OpenTelemetry contributor** - *Andrej Kiripolsky, Grafana Labs*
Andrej, a Staff User Researcher at Grafana Labs, will share his experience contributing to the OpenTelemetry CNCF project as a non-engineer. He’ll discuss how the project works, walk us through his journey from newcomer to SIG leadership in just three months, and offer practical tips for anyone looking to get involved
* 19:00 - 19:30 **A first look at modern metric instrumenting tools** - *Christian Weiß, Cloudflight*
Metrics tools and instrumentation are constantly changing and modern solutions are often slow to be adopted due to favoring existing solutions within a company environment.

This is a DevOps' attempt to implement modern metrics solutions into an existing private project using Grafana Beyla and OpenTelemetry Weaver.
* 19:30 Connect with other attendees over pizza and drinks!

Whether you're managing thousands of machines in style or just like to see the water level of your plants, this event is for you. Learn, connect, and have a great time with like-minded people. And most importantly: *collect stickers*!

Special thanks to [Cloudflight](https://www.cloudflight.io/) for sponsoring the location.

Grafana & Friends Vienna

Dominik Süß

Peter Haussl

Anton Grytsov

Gerhard Keplinger

Manfred Krieger 

Tuna

Martin Stark

ahesh lakmal

Andreas Hochleitner

Asdren Kuçi

Petra Bierleutgeb

Emil

Dmytro Hlotenko

bratislav mladjic

Ehsan Shahrokhi

Johannes Öttl

Armin

Kerstin Voglauer

Michael Riedmann

Sebastian E.

Grafana & Friends #6: OTel me what's in store for Observability

Cloudflight Austria GmbH

📊 **GrafanaCON Recap – Grafana & Friends Ahmedabad**
🗓 **Date:** 22 June 2025
🕰️ **Time:** 10:00am - 12:00 pm
📍 **Location:** TBA

Join us for a special edition of Grafana & Friends Ahmedabad as we bring the highlights of **GrafanaCON 2025** straight to our local community!, this meetup is your chance to catch up on the latest announcements, product updates, and inspiring talks from GrafanaCON, whether you missed the event or want to relive the best moments.

🎯 **What to Expect:**

* Recap of key sessions and launches from GrafanaCON 2025
* Real-world observability stories from local experts
* Open networking with the Grafana, observability, and DevOps community
* Refreshments and giveaways 🎁

🎤 **Speakers and Agenda to be announced soon.**
Whether you're an observability enthusiast, a seasoned SRE, or just curious about Grafana, this event is for you. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and be inspired!
👉 **Limited seats available — register now to secure your spot!**

Grafana & Friends Ahmedabad

Rushabh Shah

Viral Parmar

shahprexa2509

Sakshi Tiwari

Yashvi K

sankalp choudhary

Paresh

Bhavesh Patel

Ibrar Ansari

princevagadiya2005

Pratik Thakkar

Aditya Diwan

ADITYA 

Sanket Patel

Nirmit Panchal

jeet desai

deepgalani

Krish Patel

jayeshgupta91

Dev Chauhan

GrafanaCon Recap Meetup Ahmedabad

Agenda:

From SQL Expressions to Plant Monitoring in Grafana: join us to discover new Grafana features and exceptional use-cases.

**18:00** Introductions & pizza

**18:30** **STEM in the garden: how to monitor plants with IoT sensors and Grafana Cloud** by Marie Cruz, Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs
Gardening meets Grafana in this beginner-friendly talk.

Marie will walk you through building a complete IoT monitoring pipeline using a soil moisture sensor, Arduino-compatible hardware, and Grafana Cloud.

* Setting up the tech: Arduino, Wi-Fi modules, and soil sensors
* Pushing metrics to the cloud with Prometheus and Grafana
* Designing the dashboard

**19:15** **Grafana’s New Superpower: Mastering SQL Expressions** by Sam Jewell, Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs

Join Sam to discover a powerful new feature in Grafana, unlocking more power from your data and revolutionising your experience: **SQL Expressions.**
What we’ll cover:

* Performing last-mile transformations: show, hide, rename, filter, and order columns
* Using SQL features like subqueries and CTEs for in-memory data manipulation
* Joining data from unlimited data source queries

Grafana & Friends London

Ewa M.

Hugh Evans

Paul

Iain Adams

Kirubanandhan Nandagobal

Ali Umair

osmar rodrigues

Norbert D'souza

Alessandra

Marie Cruz

Marcus Aleman

Dave Biggs

Eileen

Petter Axby

Rohit Rajak

Dana Axinte

Ejimofor Nwoye

Joel Hammond-Turner

Andrew Longwill

SQL Superpowers and Smart Plant Monitoring with Grafana

Monzo

Os traemos la edición local de [GrafanaCON 2025](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/) en Madrid 🎉

Te esperamos en **[Celonis](https://www.celonis.com/)** para conocer algunas de las últimas novedades en el ecosistema de Grafana que se han desvelado en [GrafanaCON 2025](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/), y para conectar con la comunidad local.

📍**Ubicación:**
**[Celonis](https://www.celonis.com/)**: Pl\. de Manuel Gómez\-Moreno\, 2 Madrid \| [https://maps.app.goo.gl/tSeuMHXwwvaTC9VH9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/tSeuMHXwwvaTC9VH9)

**📅 Agenda:**
**18:30:** Abrimos puertas y bienvenida 👋
**18:45:** 🎙️ "**Recapitulando la Keynote de GrafanaCON 2025**", [Imma Valls](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imma-valls/) \- Staff Developer Advocate en Grafana Labs
Presentaremos los puntos clave y anuncios más relevantes de la keynote de GrafanaCON 2025.
**19:15:** 🎙️ **“Sin rastro (de queries): Simplificando el troubleshooting con Tempo y Traces Drilldown en Grafana”** by [Mario Rodríguez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariorodriguezvi%C3%B1as/) \- Senior Software Engineer en Grafana Labs
Examinar la avalancha de datos de nuestros sistemas distribuidos puede ser abrumador, pero no tiene por qué serlo.
En esta charla descubrirás cómo con [Traces Drilldown](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/explore/simplified-exploration/traces/), con tecnología [Tempo](https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/), se puede simplificar la resolución de problemas complejos, ayudándote a detectar rápidamente problemas de latencia, identificar tendencias de errores e identificar anomalías. Todo esto sin tener que aprender otro lenguaje de consulta. Para quienes se inician en las trazas distribuidas, sabemos que empezar con las métricas derivadas de las trazas puede ser abrumador al principio. Por eso, la página principal de Drilldown Traces consolida los datos de las trazas en una vista intuitiva.
**20:00 - 21:00:** Networking con pizzas y bebidas 🍻🍕

No faltará el picoteo post evento después de las charlas ¿te unes al evento? Sería un placer verte y charlar contigo 🎉 ¡Nos vemos!

Grafana & Friends Madrid

Imma Valls

Sergio Valverde

Carlos

Kadaffy Talavera

Renato Goncalves

Raúl Torres

Jose Gómez-Sellés

Gines

Iñaki Fernández

Juraj Michálek

david plaza

Luis A

Carlos Eduardo Lopez Vecino

Mario Rodriguez

Adam

Roberto Jimenez

Ramon Garcia Fernandez

Miguel Angel Diez Bielsa

Matías Pecchia

Daniela Echenique

GrafanaCON Recap Madrid

Celonis SL

Welcome to our summer Meetup of 2025, hosted by the lovely folks of QAWare.

Talk 1)
**Rethinking Cloud Observability – An Approach with Grafana Beyla and Pyroscope**
*Franz Wimmer, QAWare*

Traditional monitoring approaches reach their limits in modern cloud environments. Distributed systems, dynamic scaling, and complex dependencies require new methods for monitoring and optimizing applications. Cloud observability is based on logs, metrics, and traces, which together provide a comprehensive picture of system health.Grafana Beyla and Grafana Pyroscope are powerful open-source tools available for in-depth analysis. Beyla uses eBPF for agentless tracing and metrics collection with minimal overhead, while Pyroscope enables continuous profiling to uncover bottlenecks at the code level. This combination allows developers to specifically identify and resolve latency, resource usage, and performance issues.The targeted use of these technologies helps optimize cloud architectures, reduce downtime, and sustainably improve system performance.Both solutions can be seamlessly integrated into Kubernetes, the industry standard for cluster orchestration. We’ll see how this works in practice through a live demo.

Talk 2)
**Putting the Pro in Profiles**
*Ismail Simsek, Grafana Labs*
Continuous Profiling is the next frontier in observability, promising deep insights into system performance with minimal overhead. Yet for many developers, the thought of flamegraphs, stacks, and CPU cycles can feel like black magic. In this talk, we'll break down profiling into something not just accessible, but empowering.
You'll discover why profiles are a missing pillar of observability, how continuous profiling changes the game compared to traditional tools, and why flamegraphs — despite their intimidating looks — are actually intuitive and powerful once demystified. Along the way, we'll explore practical examples where profiling turned sluggish systems into high-performers and revealed optimization opportunities worth millions.
Key takeaways:

* Understand how to use flamegraphs to spot and fix performance bottlenecks fast
* Learn practical techniques to optimize CPU, memory, and network resource usage
* See how continuous profiling transforms system observability and cost efficiency
* Gain confidence to apply profiling insights in production environments at scale

By the end of this talk,
you’ll be able to decode flamegraphs with confidence, uncover hidden performance issues across your stack, and apply continuous profiling to drive real improvements

Talk 3)
**AI at Grafana**
*Maurice Rochau, Grafana Labs*
This talk explores our AI offerings in Grafana Cloud and how we bring AI into observability. We'll introduce you to forecasting and outlier detection, must have capabilities in every observability stack, and Sift, our diagnostic assistant. We'll end by giving you an exclusive sneak peek into our newest addition, the Grafana Assistant

Grafana & Friends Munich

Richard Hartmann

Sebastian Schubert

Eduard Frank

Dirk Gómez

Aleksei Vasilevskii

Googol Lee

Frank Merwerth 

martin_wunderlich

Marcin Pankowski

Nicolai Hornung

Yurii Kuzmenko

ismail simsek

Vitalij

moritz graf

Enis Spahi

Greg Medrala

Steffen Ripke

Mathias Münch

Franz Wimmer

Jhonatan Morais

QAware GmbH

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