Grafana & Friends #6: OTel me what's in store for Observability

After a long hiatus, the Grafana & Friends Meetup returns!

As always, we'll have two talks, food & drinks as well as plenty of time for you to network with other participants.

If you're interested in holding a talk at this or the next meetup, either submit your idea through the Community Contribution Form or just talk to us in person at the next event. We always love hearing about interesting topics from the community!

Agenda:

• 18:00 - 18:30: Arrival & Networking
• 18:30 - 19:00 My journey as an OpenTelemetry contributor - Andrej Kiripolsky, Grafana Labs
  Andrej, a Staff User Researcher at Grafana Labs, will share his experience contributing to the OpenTelemetry CNCF project as a non-engineer. He’ll discuss how the project works, walk us through his journey from newcomer to SIG leadership in just three months, and offer practical tips for anyone looking to get involved
• 19:00 - 19:30 A first look at modern metric instrumenting tools - Christian Weiß, Cloudflight
  Metrics tools and instrumentation are constantly changing and modern solutions are often slow to be adopted due to favoring existing solutions within a company environment.

This is a DevOps' attempt to implement modern metrics solutions into an existing private project using Grafana Beyla and OpenTelemetry Weaver.

• 19:30 Connect with other attendees over pizza and drinks!

Whether you're managing thousands of machines in style or just like to see the water level of your plants, this event is for you. Learn, connect, and have a great time with like-minded people. And most importantly: collect stickers!

Special thanks to Cloudflight for sponsoring the location.