About us
This Grafana & Friends meetup group hosts events focused on open source monitoring and observability using Grafana and related technologies. Some meetups feature formal presentations, while others are more relaxed and discussion-driven. Every event is designed to encourage learning, connection, and community. Snacks and stickers included!
🎤 Interested in speaking?
We’re always looking for meetup speakers! Submit your talk ideas here, and we’ll reach out with next steps if your proposal is accepted.
Grafana & Friends meetups aren’t the only way to connect with the community! Explore additional ways to get involved below:
Interact and be heard:
- Forums: Do you have a problem, question, or curiosity? Visit our forums for a reservoir of knowledge- submit your own questions and answers!
- Community Slack: Eager for real-time connections with fellow users? Begin a conversation on Slack.
Learn:
- YouTube: From getting started to exploring newer projects like Pyroscope and Beyla, the Grafana YouTube channel has what you need to get started!
Contribute:
- Github: Check out our open github repositories to report bugs and contribute code
- Meetups and blogs: We’d love to feature your OSS Grafana Labs use case or story at an upcoming Grafana & Friends meetup or on the Grafana blog! Submit your idea here and we’ll connect with you on next steps if accepted.
- Champions: Join the Grafana Champions program! It’s designed to recognize and empower individuals who are actively contributing to the growth and success of the Grafana ecosystem.
All events hosted by this group and communication on this platform are subject to Grafana Labs' Events Code of Conduct.
Upcoming events
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Grafana & Friends Chicago: Observability & AI
The Aspen Group, 800 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL, USJoin us for an AI-in-Observability meetup! This is a great opportunity to explore how AI is shaping modern observability and learn more about Grafana and the broader observability ecosystem. Connect with fellow practitioners, exchange ideas, and enjoy some delicious pizza while you’re at it.
We’ll dive into real-world use cases of AI in observability — more details on the sessions coming soon. Stay tuned and mark your calendars!
Your AI agents are running in production. But can you actually see what they're doing? Those tokens don't count themselves! Join us to dig into AI Observability — one of the fastest-growing challenges in the cloud-native space.
Here's what we're covering:
🔍 Monitoring agentic AI frameworks before issues become incidents
📊 Building powerful dashboards with AI-assisted workflows
🔓 Why OpenTelemetry and open-source standards matter more than everWe'll also explore how Grafana and Google Cloud work alongside each other build observable, production-ready AI systems!
Special thanks to The Aspen Group and Joel Vasallo for hosting us at their downtown office.
19 attendeesGrafanaCON Local Meetup: Chicago
TAG - The Aspen Group, 800 West Fulton Market, Chicago, IL, USA taste of GrafanaCON is coming to you!
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 keynote, combined with fresh voices from your own community.
Grafana team members will 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 practitionersAgenda:
5:30 - 5:45: Arrivals and pizza
5:45 - 6:30: GrafanaCON recap presentation
6:30 - 6:45: Q&A
6:45 - 7:00: Community lightning talks [pending]
7:00 - 7:30: Discussion and more pizza!Note that by registering for this event you consent to related event & product communications from Grafana Labs and agree to our code of conduct.
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Past events
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