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.
Upcoming events
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GrafanaCON Local meetup: Prague
SentinelOne CZ, Karolinská 707/7, Karlín, Praha-Praha 8, CZJoin your local observability community for an evening of open source inspiration, real-world stories, and meaningful connections - all in a laid-back, meetup-style setting.
This event will feature a recap of the GrafanaCON keynote, combined with fresh voices from your own community.
Grafana team members walk through Grafana 13 and the most impactful improvements across the platform. Learn about how Grafana is becoming easier and safer to operate as production infrastructure, with updates that improve configuration management, recovery, and long-term maintainability. The session showcases significant advances in core user workflows, including more flexible and powerful dashboards, with improved performance.
Whether you’re building dashboards, scaling Kubernetes, contributing to open source, or just getting started - this meetup is for you!
🎟 Free to attend
🍕 Pizza + soft drinks provided
🤝 Built for connection
💡 Real talks from real practitioners
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WAITLIST: The venue capacity is limited, therefore to ensure the best experience & relevance for the Grafana community, the registrations are not auto-confirmed - but managed via waitlist. Without a previous confirmation email, we won't be able to let you in! 😢
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AGENDA:
17:30 - 18:00: Arrivals and pizza18:00 - 18:30: GrafanaCON recap presentation - by Grafana Labs team: Jára Benc, Staff Software Engineer & Juraj Michalek, Senior Solutions Architect & Rob Knight, Senior Solutions Architect
18:30 - 18:45: Q & A
18:45 - 19:40: Community lightning talks
- "Who gets paged? Unit-testing Grafana notification policies." by Martin Fryč, Staff Infrastructure Engineer at SentinelOne
- Grafana notification policies decide who wakes up at 3am, and a single mistyped label can silently reroute an alert into the wrong team's branch. Grafana 13 and grafana-operator let teams own their slice of the policy tree, but Alertmanager still evaluates one merged tree, so a too-broad matcher in team A's subtree can quietly swallow team B's alerts. This talk shows a small Go tool that treats routing as code: declarative "given these labels, expect these receivers" assertions, run in CI against the assembled policy. We will walk through the routing semantics, real misroutings the tool can catch, and why multi-tree provisioning makes this test layer more necessary, not less.
- TBD by TBD, TBD at TBD
19:40 - 21:30: Discussion and more pizza!
Note that by registering for this event you consent to related event & product communications from Grafana Labs and agree to our code of conduct.
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PLEASE NOTE: at the SentinelOne office, in line with the venue security requirements - all meetup attendees will be required be verified by their ID card (or passport), also to sign a generic NDA used for all office visitors and to wear a visitor badge with their name during the whole event - to be able to attend the meetup.19 attendees
