Grafana & Friends Stockholm

Name: Grafana & Friends
Start: 2026-11-11T16:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-11-11T19:00:00.000Z
Location: FDJ United

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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.

Featured event

Grafana & Friends

Wed, Nov 11 · 5:00 PM CET

FDJ United, Regeringsgatan 25, 111 53 Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, SE

Join us for the next Grafana & Friends Meetup, hosted by FDJ UNITED
📕 Agenda
17:00 - 17:25: Drop-in, food/drink-grabbing and mingle
17:25 - 17:30: Introductions
17:30 - 18:00: Observability at FDJ UNITED: Using Grafana as a Single Pane of Glass, Rodrigo Hernandez and Barun Mandal
18:00 - 18:20: Mingle
18:20 - 18:50: Session to be confirmed, Israel Ochoa
18:50 - 20:00: Mingle

1️⃣ Observability at FDJ UNITED: Using Grafana as a Single Pane of Glass

In this session, SREs from FDJ’s Infrastructure organisation will talk about the challenges, successes and failures of using OSS as the Backbone of Observability in a highly regulated industry.
The session will cover:

Thanos: The metrics source of truth
Tempo: Baby steps into the world of tracing
Loki: A bittersweet story
GitSync: Dashboards as code, by popular demand
Graphia: FDJ UNITED’s approach to enabling Grafana MCP for AI observability
On-premises observability: Custom tenant management and RBAC

About the Speakers

Rodrigo works in FDJ UNITED’s Online Betting and Casino Business Unit and has more than 20 years of experience in observability. He is currently the SRE Technical Lead for the Infrastructure department, where he builds highly available observability systems and promotes best practices for collecting, processing and visualising data across the organisation. Rodrigo is also a long-time advocate of open-source technologies.

Barun is a Site Reliability Engineer at FDJ UNITED with more than 14 years of experience across capacity engineering, performance engineering and SRE. He is passionate about building scalable and performant solutions using open-source technologies and exploring creative ways to make the most of existing tools and features.
Outside work, Barun is a hobby painter, football fanatic and space enthusiast who tracks solar activity, auroras and satellite passes from his home lab—while keeping up with his lively three-year-old.

2️⃣ [Session to be confirmed]

📍Location
FDJ United Office: Regeringsgatan 25, 111 53 Stockholm
Located in: Gallerian | https://maps.app.goo.gl/b5zcvpGVhvavWN3u6

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 a week 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 let the photographer know when you arrive.
If you feel sick, stay at home.

Registration !!!!!
Please register before the deadline. It is required to be able to sort your access to the building, so you can have a smooth experience.

We are looking forward to seeing you 🎉