Grafana & Friends Manchester Inaugural Event: SQL + OpenTelemetry eBPF

🗒️ Details
Join us for an observability-focused meetup hosted at Autotrader Manchester! This event is an opportunity to dive deep into advanced Grafana features and modern observability practices. Learn how to transform real-world data into actionable insights, explore zero-code instrumentation, and discover practical patterns you can apply to your own monitoring and dashboards.

📋 Agenda

🎉 18:00 Introductions & snacking time Kick off the evening with a warm welcome, snacks and some 🍺 cold drinks!

🎙️ 18:30 Talk: Tracking Down Traitors with Grafana SQL Expressions
Talk Description: The Traitors has become a huge TV phenomenon, and instead of just shouting at the TV, we turned the latest series into data! In this talk, you'll see how to track the twists and turns of complex datasets and transform them into colorful Grafana dashboards using nothing more than a Google Sheet and Grafana's SQL Expressions feature. Walk away with a clear mental model of SQL Expressions, concrete patterns you can reuse in your own business dashboards, and maybe even a new appreciation for reality TV as a data source!
Level: Beginner to Intermediate (basic Grafana dashboard concepts and SQL knowledge helpful but not required)
Speaker: Simon Prickett, Senior Developer Advocate @ Grafana Labs

🎙️ 19:15 Talk: Introduction to Grafana Beyla and OBI
Talk Description: Learn about zero-code instrumentation through Grafana Beyla and OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation projects. Find out where auto-generated metrics and traces come from, and how correlation is achieved through W3C Trace Context propagation. Perfect for teams looking to streamline their observability setup without extensive manual instrumentation.
Level: Intermediate
Speaker: Stephen Lang, Staff Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs.

💬 20:00 Networking and Q&As
🔚 20:30 The End

The event is well-suited for DevOps and Site-Reliability engineers, and we welcome people who are new to Grafana or observability. We look forward to seeing you all there!

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