Grafana & Friends Bengaluru X Bengaluru SRE X JFrog March 2026 [In-Person]

Grafana invites you to a meetup on March 21st, 2026 in collaboration with Bengaluru SRE, hosted at the JFrog office, where industry experts will delve into Site Reliability Engineering and Observability with a strong focus on practical, production-grade learnings.

This joint community meetup brings together engineers working close to real systems to share honest lessons from incident management, chaos engineering, and reliability at scale.

If you are working in or exploring SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, observability, or cloud operations, this event is built for you.
Don’t miss this opportunity to network with peers and gain actionable insights.

Mark your calendars for March 21st, 2026 and RSVP to reserve your spot now.

Note: This is a collaboration event with Bengaluru SRE Meetup. Please RSVP on only one of the Meetup.com event pages.

📅 When: March 21st, 2026, 10:00 AM IST
📌 Where: JFrog India Pvt. Ltd.
When: March 21st, 2026

Location: JFrog India Pvt. Ltd.
Address : 4th Floor, Block B, Salarpuria Softzone, Green Glen Layout, Bellandur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103

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🕒 Schedule:
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM: Introductions and Kick-off

10:30 - 10:45 AM: Talk 1: Autonomous SRE & AIOps: Delivering Efficiency in Incident Management and Zero-Touch Orchestration

From alert fatigue to autonomous healing — see how AIOps is redefining incident response and hands-free reliability at scale.

Speaker: Satheesh Balachandran (JFrog)

10:45 - 11:05 AM: Talk 2: Chaos Engineering - A Game Changer for Reliability
Break it before it breaks you — harness chaos engineering to expose risks early and harden your production systems.
Speaker: Midhun Mohanan (JFrog)

11:10 AM - 11:35 AM: Talk 3 - TBA

TBA

11:45 - 12:30 PM: Panel Discussion with experienced practitioners

A panel discussion featuring panelists who are practitioners with strong engineering backgrounds in reliability, observability, and cloud operations.

The panel will dive into SRE culture, real incident scenarios, trade-offs teams make in practice, and how to run, observe and scale systems, and how to deal with things when they fails under pressure.

Panel Discussion is also open for audience so attenddes can steer the discussion and ask questions.

Panelists:

• Saurabh Hirani, Principal SRE at One2N
• Gaurav Chaturvedi, SRE consultant with diverse experience.
• Akshay Deshpande, Architect, Engineering at Smarsh
• Vijay Dhama, Founder @ Infraspec, Lead Organiser of DevOpsDays Bengaluru
• Prajith Bhaskaran, Global Director of Cloud Engineering, JFrog

Panel discussion will be moderated by the Organizers to shapes the conversation, manages time, and ensures a balanced, engaging discussion for the audience

12:30 PM onwards: Networking over Coffee, lunch

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Attendee Benefits

• Learn practical SRE and observability strategies from engineers working in production
• Get 1-1 time with Grafana engineers and community experts
• Network with SRE and platform engineering peers in Bengaluru
• Stickers for everyone

Entry requirements:

• Valid government-issued photo ID required at the reception
• Entry subject to venue security policies at JFrog
• 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/](https://grafana.com/about/events/events-code-of-conduct/).