Grafana & Friends Brno

Name: Grafana & Friends Brno #1 - The Inaugural Meetup!
Start: 2026-03-19T17:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-03-19T20:00:00.000Z
Location: OpenSSL Corporation

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.

Featured event

Grafana & Friends Brno #1 - The Inaugural Meetup!

Thu, Mar 19 · 6:00 PM CET

OpenSSL Corporation, Kotlářská 51a, 1st Floor, Brno, CZ

We’re excited to invite you to the very first Grafana & Friends meetup in Brno! 🚀

Brno has a great tech community, and it’s about time we brought Grafana & Friends here. Whether you’re deep into observability, just getting started with Grafana, or simply curious about open source monitoring - this is your meetup.

A massive thank you to our friends at OpenSSL for generously hosting us at their Brno office for this inaugural event! 🫶

🗓️ March 19, 2026, 18:00 - 21:00
📍 OpenSSL office, Kotlářská 989/51a, Brno

Agenda
18:00 - 18:30 - Welcome, snacks, drinks & networking
18:30 - 18:40 - Meetup introduction & a few words from our host
18:40 - 19:15 — Talk 1: “How We Use Grafana at OpenSSL” — Dmitri Misharov (🇬🇧 in English)
19:15 - 19:25 — Short break
19:25 - 20:00 — Talk 2: “Observability at Scale at Seznam.cz” — Martin Chodur (🇨🇿 in Czech)
20:00 - 21:00 - Beers & Networking 🍻

🎙️ Speakers

1️⃣ Dmitri Misharov — OpenSSL (🇬🇧 in English)
How We Use Grafana at OpenSSL: From Performance Regressions to Infrastructure Monitoring

Dmitri will share how the OpenSSL team leverages Grafana across multiple areas of their work — catching performance regressions in the OpenSSL library, tracking GitHub issues KPIs, monitoring OpenSSL library downloads, and keeping an eye on their infrastructure. A great look behind the scenes of one of the most critical open source projects in the world.

2️⃣ Martin Chodur — Seznam.cz (🇨🇿 in Czech)
Our Observability Setup at Scale

Martin will walk us through how Seznam.cz — one of the largest Czech tech companies — runs their observability stack at serious scale, with a setup tightly integrated with GitOps. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to run monitoring infrastructure at this level, this is the talk for you.

💡 What is Grafana & Friends?
Grafana & Friends is a worldwide community of meetups bringing together people who are passionate about observability, open source, and building great developer tooling. With 78 groups across 33 countries and over 34,000 members, we’re one of the largest observability communities out there. From Zurich to Kolkata, London to San Francisco, Stockholm to Pune — and now Brno!

Each meetup is a mix of technical talks, real-world stories, and plenty of time to grab a drink and connect with fellow engineers. Some events feature deep-dive presentations, others are more casual — but they all share the same spirit: learn something new, meet great people, and have fun.

🍕 What to expect

Two talks from speakers working on interesting projects in the observability and infrastructure space
Snacks and drinks to kick things off
Plenty of time for Q&A and open discussion after the talks
Cold beers and networking to close out the evening
Stickers!

Our meetups are open to everyone — seasoned SREs, platform engineers, developers, students, or anyone curious about how modern monitoring and observability work. No prior Grafana experience needed. Just bring yourself and your curiosity!

We’re looking forward to meeting the Brno tech community. See you there! 🎉