Grafana & Friends Manila: Modern Observability in Action

Join us for an evening focused on Grafana and modern observability practices! Learn how engineering teams improve system visibility, performance testing, and incident response through real-world case studies and live demos.

📍 Event Details

• Date: Friday, September 11, 2026
• Time: 6:00 PM – 10:30 PM
• Location: Novare Technologies

📋 Agenda

• 6:00 PM – Check-in, Food & Networking
• Grab drinks and snacks, meet fellow engineers, and settle in.
• 7:00 PM – Welcome & Opening Remarks
• Hosts: Hendric Zapanta & Shannah Aberin

🎙️ Featured Sessions

• From Detection to Response: Building Reliable Platforms with Grafana

• Speaker: Benjamin Guazon

• Focus: Proactive reliability testing, synthetic monitoring, and incident response using Grafana Cloud k6 and Grafana OnCall/IRM.

• Grafana MCP - Making observability data easier to consume

• Speaker: Julius Carreon and Giovanni Vinluan

• Focus: Grafana MCP makes observability data easier to access through natural-language questions. This session explores how AI assistants can use Grafana dashboard queries and retrieve telemetry to support investigations.

• Grafana Network Device Status Visualization Dashboard

• Speakers: Manish Ingole

• Focus: Building real-time topology views for network infrastructure. Learn how mapping upstream/downstream connections speeds up troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.

• Automating Grafana Snapshots in Open Source

• Speaker: Joshua Lagasca

• Focus: How to programmatically generate, schedule, and distribute interactive Grafana dashboard snapshots using the Snapshot API—no manual exports required.

💬 Interactive Wrap-up

• 9:30 PM – Networking, Q&A & Socials
• 10:00 PM – Event Concludes

👥 Who Should Attend DevOps Engineers, SREs, QA Engineers, System Administrators, and anyone interested in performance testing, monitoring, and platform reliability.

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📩 Questions & Inquiries

• Hendric Zapanta: hendric.zapanta@globe.com.ph
• Shannah Aberin: saaberin@globe.com.ph

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