Grafana & Friends Chennai March 2025 Meetup

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the Grafana and Friends Chennai Community Event happening this March 8, 2025, in the afternoon!🚀

If you're passionate about Grafana, observability, and performance monitoring, this is the perfect opportunity to connect with experts, gain hands-on knowledge, and explore the latest trends in monitoring, visualization, and logging.

📢 Agenda – Inspiring Talks & Live Demos

🔹 Talk 1: Mastering Visualizations – Build Grafana Dashboards Like a Pro

Speaker: Chandra Mohan Dhanasekaran, AWS Cloud Architect at Philips

Want to visualize your data like a pro but don’t know where to start? This session will take you from zero to expert in building powerful Grafana dashboards. Learn how to configure data sources, optimize panels, and apply best practices to turn raw data into insightful visualizations.

🔹 Talk 2: Grafana Loki – Log Like a Pro
Speaker: Nirdesh Singh, DevOps Engineer at Vivriti Capital

Discover Grafana Loki, a powerful tool for log aggregation and analysis. Learn how Loki simplifies logging and integrates seamlessly into Kubernetes environments. This session will cover real-world use cases and best practices for efficient log management.

🔹 Talk 3: When Metrics Aren't Enough – Solving Performance Mysteries with Pyroscope

Speaker: Musalannagari Manoj Kumar, DevOps Lead at MakoITLab

Struggling with CPU spikes and memory leaks? Learn how continuous profiling with Grafana Pyroscope can uncover hidden performance issues. Through live demos and flame graphs, we’ll show how to identify root causes and optimize your applications like a pro!

🔹 Talk 4: OrgGuard – Automate GitHub Policy Checks & Visualize Compliance in Grafana

Speaker: Deexith Parandaman, DevOps Engineer at JMAN Group

Enterprise GitHub plans too costly? This session will show you how to self-host GitHub policy enforcement using OPA (Open Policy Agent) and Grafana. Automate security checks, monitor compliance, and receive alerts—all without upgrading to expensive GitHub plans! Live demo included!

📅 Event Details
🗓 Date: Saturday, March 8, 2025
🕑 Time: 2 pm - 5 pm
📍 Location: Vivriti Capital Limited
Prestige Zackria Metropolitan, No.200/1-8, 2nd Floor, Block 1
Anna Salai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600002

🚀 Register Now! Don’t miss this chance to learn, network, and grow with the Grafana community!

For any questions, feel free to reach out. We can’t wait to see you there!