First Ever Grafana and Friends Meetup in MANILA!

🗒️ Details
Join us for an observability-focused meetup hosted at AWS BGC (15th Floor - Room 101)! This event is an opportunity to learn how teams are leveraging Grafana and modern observability practices to improve system visibility, performance testing, and overall reliability. Hear directly from engineers as they share real-world use cases, tooling decisions, and adoption strategies.

📍 Date: May 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 10:30 PM

***

📋 Agenda
🎉 6:00 PM - Introductions & Snacking Time
Kick off the evening with a warm welcome, plus snacks and drinks as guests arrive!
🎙️ 7:00 PM - Program Start
Speakers: Hendric Zapanta, Shannah Aberin and Gab Laserna

***

💣 How We Started with Grafana: Observability as a Use Case
Explore how observability was introduced and implemented as a core capability, and how Grafana enabled better visibility across systems.
Speakers: Morrison Saflor and Shannah Aberin

***

💣 Tracing as a First-Class Citizen
Understand why distributed tracing is critical in modern systems and how it helps engineers detect and resolve issues faster.
Speaker: Kenneth Vidal

***

💣 Why We Chose K6 for QE Performance Testing Stack
Learn the reasoning behind selecting K6 and how it fits into the overall performance testing strategy.
💣 The QE Automation Template: Standardized Test Framework for Performance Testing
Discover how a standardized approach enables scalable and consistent performance testing across teams.
💣 Driving Adoption: How Product Teams are Leveraging the Performance Test Template
See how teams are actually using the framework and the impact it brings to engineering workflows.
Speaker: Eleizer Santos

***

🎯 Engagement: Kahoot
Wrap up the talks with a fun and interactive Kahoot session with prizes!
💬 Networking & Q&A + Directed Socials
🔚 10:00 PM - End of Program

***

👥 Who Should Attend
This event is ideal for DevOps engineers, SREs, QA engineers, and anyone interested in observability, performance testing, and reliability engineering. Whether you're new or experienced, there’s something valuable for you.

***

📩 Questions & Inquiries
Feel free to reach out to:
Hendric Zapanta – hendric.zapanta@globe.com.ph
Shannah Aberin – saaberin@globe.com.ph

***

#Grafana #Observability #DevOps #SRE #Tracing #PerformanceTesting #K6 #Monitoring