Grafana & Friends London - March edition
Details
Join us for Grafana talks mixed with snacks and community conversations!
Schedule
18:00-18:30
Welcome, snacks, drinks and networking
18:30-19:00
From Service to Line Number: Getting Started with Continuous Profiling by Christian Simon, Principal Engineer at Grafana
Logs, metrics, and traces tell you which service is slow or expensive. Profiles tell you which code path - down to the line number. With profiling now part of OpenTelemetry, and the eBPF profiler requiring zero instrumentation, there's never been a better time to add this missing piece to your observability stack.
1. Value of Continuous Profiling
2. How do you set up continuous profiling (Pyroscope + OTel eBPF profiler)
3. Deriving insights from Profiles using Grafana Assistant
4. Demo
19:00-19:40 My Cool Grafana Dashboard Show and Tell - Lightning Talks
Lightning talks:
1. What if Your Career Had Metrics?
Roxana Turc, Software Engineer at BNY, will show how she used Grafana to build a career dashboard—tracking learning, work, and growth, and why seeing her progress this way changed how she thinks about development.
2. Using Grafana for Visualising IoT Air Quality Sensor Data by John Sinha, Lead Technical Business Analyst
IoT air quality sensors produce noisy, high-resolution time series data, but how you visualise it determines what you actually see. This lightning talk walks through a Grafana dashboard designed to present environmental data clearly, covering time and value scaling choices, linear vs. log views, and practical denoising techniques. See how small visualisation decisions can dramatically change the story your sensor data tells.
- How I discovered pigeons sabotaging my project with Kafka and Grafana - by Hugh Evans, Developer Advocate at Aiven
Learn how how a lightweight Kafka + Grafana observability stack helped Hugh catch his avian adversaries and iterate on a hobby project without enterprise-scale complexity or costs.
