Grafana & Friends Stockholm

Time for another Grafana & Friends Meetup, together with the Stockholm Apache Kafka® and Kong/Stockholm communities, hosted by Magello 🎉

📕 Agenda
17:00 - 17:25: Drop-in, food/drink-grabbing and mingle
17:25 - 17:30: Introductions
17:30 - 18:00: Talk 1
18:00 - 18:20: Mingle
18:20 - 18:50: Talk 2
18:50 - 20:00: Mingle

1️⃣ "Beyond API Management: Building AI-Enabled Event Streams with Kong Event Gateway, Kafka and MCP" by Johannes Brännström, Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong
In the era of LLMs and real-time data, the gateway’s role has shifted from a passive "traffic cop" to an active platform enabler. In this session, we’ll move beyond the basics and live-build a real-time, event-driven chat system. We’ll show you how to:

• Architect the Backbone: Use Kafka for high-throughput event streaming.
• Secure the Flow: Implement robust Auth/Z using Kong to protect your event streams.
• Give AI "Hands": Integrate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to allow a chatbot to perform actions, like fetching Konnect metrics or generating memes, directly from the stream.
• Simplify the Complexity: See how Kong isn’t just another layer of friction, but a tool that makes orchestrating these complex, multi-protocol systems significantly easier.

2️⃣ "Visualizing Your Data Lake with Grafana", Imma Valls, Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs.
In this brief talk, we’ll walk through how to get started with Grafana’s open source platform to explore and understand your data lake. We’ll cover how to connect to your data, no matter where it lives. How to craft queries that turn raw information into clear, compelling visualizations, and finally, set up alerts and annotations so you’re always in the know when something important changes in your data lake.

📍Location
Magello office: Västgötagatan 2, 118 27 Stockholm | https://maps.app.goo.gl/FPhEqLjttBHEneEt8
Take the stairs to the left after entering the building. If anyone is late, dial "Patrik Magello Group" on the door phone.

Food
There will be vegan/vegetarian food, and beverages at the event; if you have any allergies or other food preferences, please let us know at least 48 hours before the event!

Photo and video
We may take photos and record videos during the event. If you prefer not to be captured on camera, please inform the photographer when arriving.
If you feel sick, stay at home.

We are looking forward to seeing you 🎉!

A taste of GrafanaCON is coming to you, Stockholm!

Join 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.

A big thank you to Embark Studios for hosting us in their beautiful Stockholm office and helping bring the local observability community together.

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

Agenda:
5:30 - 5:45: Arrivals and pizza
5:45 - 6:30: GrafanaCON recap presentation - Carl Bergquist
6:30 - 6:45: Q & A
6:45 - 7:00: Community lightning talks [tbc]
7:00 - 8:00: Discussion and more pizza!

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