Inaugural Grafana & Friends London Meetup!

🚀 Join us for the debut Grafana & Friends London Meetup at the Hylo Building, hosted by Beamery! This inaugural event promises an evening of insightful discussions, networking, and knowledge sharing within the Grafana community. Our special guest and the host for the night is Tom Wilkie, Grafana's CTO.

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Agenda:

- Welcome and Opening Remarks by Tom Wilkie, Grafana CTO
Start the evening with a warm welcome to the Grafana & Friends community and grab some pizza!

- Span Profiling with Grafana Pyroscope (Christian Simon, Grafana)
Profiling helps developers understand which part of their application (ideally down to the function and line of code) is slowing it down. With that insight you are able to effectively optimize your application.
In this talk I will show how using Grafana Pyroscope you can collect, aggregated and visualize Profiles. We will also look at how combining distributed tracing using Grafana Tempo, can help understanding resource consumption per request.
While there is a focus on the Go ecosystem, most of the content of the talk is transferable to other languages.

- Taming the swarm of high-cardinality Istio metrics - using recording rules to produce usable Istio metrics (Aaron Walker, Beamery)
Istio is a service mesh that adds security, observability and connectivity to micro-service architectures. Istios sidecar-based approach means that a vast amount of metrics data gets generated, which only increases as you scale both the size and complexity of your systems.
In this talk, we'll discover the issues that Istio caused our self-hosted monitoring stack and how we can solved them by re-evaluating the data that we actually wanted. In addition, we'll explore how we manage our observability systems at scale, allowing developers to manage their dashboards and alerts.

- DORA metrics on a shoestring (Gerald Schmidt, DS Smith)
There’s a lot of buzz around performance metrics right now, but the ones measured most often are the DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time, mean time to recovery and failure rate. The problem is that it can be expensive to collect them and prepare them for presentation automatically. This talk is about a lightweight and open source DORA metrics controller that works with any CI/CD tool and requires only Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana to run.

- Networking and drinks
Connect with Grafana enthusiasts, exchange ideas, and build valuable professional relationships

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About the speakers:

- Christian Simon is a Software Engineer at Grafana Labs. He found his way into the observability space by starting as a hobby Linux administrator as early as Kernel v2.2 and when eventually Kubernetes required some detailed insights, he gradually started to focus on observability data collection and storage. In his Software Engineering role at Grafana Labs he works on the continuous profiling database Grafana Pyroscope.

- Aaron Walker is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Beamery. He primarily focuses on their custom observability stack - Beamery Observe - which provides developers with a platform for visualising and alerting on observability data.

- Gerald Schmidt recently joined DS Smith as data platform engineering lead, having led platform teams at Babylon Health and Go City. A little further back in time, he was lead infrastructure consultant at Thoughtworks.

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