Four data source plugins to add to your stack

Join us for a lightning Kafka and observability-focused Meetup hosted at Thinkport GmbH! This event is a unique opportunity to gain insights into Grafana and Kafka stacks.
Enjoy a chance to network with fellow enthusiasts and have some delicious pizza!
📋 Agenda
🎉 18:00 Introductions & snacking time
Kick off the evening with a warm welcome, and some 🍺 cold drinks!

🎙️ 18:30 Talk:
💣 3 data source plugins to add to your stack after this talk

• Description: Grafana is not just about visualizing metrics, logs, and traces. It’s about bringing your data – wherever it lives, whatever it is – into one spot. Imagine bringing together data about deployments, cloud costs, and web accessibility! In this lightning talk, Grafana Labs Developer Advocate Usman Ahmad will share three open source data source plugins from the Grafana catalog and demonstrate how you can use them to enrich your existing dashboards.
• Speakers: Syed Usman Ahmad, Staff Developer Advocate @ Grafana Labs
  Usman is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack. As a DevRel he contributes to Documentation, creating video tutorials, blog posts to help Grafana Labs in its product growth and also improve the user experience.

🎙️ 19:00 Talk:
💣 Real-Time Kafka Visualisation in Grafana

• Description: In this talk, we’ll introduce the Kafka Data Source plugin we developed for Grafana, which enables users to query and visualise Kafka topic data directly in their dashboards—without the need for intermediate storage or external services. We'll share how the idea came about, how we collaborated with the Grafana community and developers to bring it to life, and the challenges we faced along the way. We'll also discuss our vision for the plugin’s future and its role in the evolving observability landscape.
• Speakers: Hamed Karbasi, Senior Data Engineer @ 0+X
  Hamed is a data engineer at 0+X, focused on large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines. Most recently at Snapp!, he scaled the event-driven infrastructure, redesigned the data warehouse, and optimized pipelines for greater availability and scalability. A passionate open-source contributor, he actively works on Grafana and Kubernetes on GitHub, and shares insights via Medium and YouTube.

🍕 19:30 Pizza and Networking
🎙️ 20:15 Talk:
💣 TBA

• Description: TBA
• Speakers: Teodora Farcas, Solutions Engineering Consultant, Confluent

💬 20:45 Networking and Q&As
🔚 21:30 The End
The event is well-suited for Software engineers, and we welcome people who are new to Kafka, Grafana or observability. We look forward to seeing you all there!

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