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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Give AI Nothing to Exfiltrate: Breaking (up) your laptop
Humboldtsaal Freiburg, Humboldtstraße 2, Freiburg im Breisgau, CHFor our next meetup, we are joining the DevOps Freiburg community (in Germany).
⚠️ Kindly RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/devops-freiburg/events/314193983 for this event ⚠️
🌟 Talk: Give AI Nothing to Exfiltrate: Breaking (up) your laptop
🗒️ Topic: Fixing a bug in a web app doesn't need your cloud admin credentials. And it doesn't need the infra repos sitting in ~/work either. But your on-call rotation does – so your laptop has all of it, all the time.
Developer machines drift toward the maximum privilege level required by any task we do or did, even though we're almost never operating at that level at any given moment. But every token, SSH key, and cloned repo within reach is a target for a malicious postinstall script, a compromised transitive dependency, or a coding agent straying off-path. Can you be 100% sure that the next npm install won't ruin your day? Especially in the age of AI, we need strict limits rather than soft guardrails.
In this talk, Tom makes the case for least-privilege zones during development, separating the contexts you work in, so each one can only reach what it actually needs – without compromising your productivity.
Docker is the intuitive answer here, and it's the wrong one: a container is a packaging format, not a security boundary. Tom will then live-demo purpose-built open-source tools that actually give you isolation – and make the case that the only approach that works is the one seamless enough that you keep using it.👤 Speaker: Tom is a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on highly autonomous agents for automatic infrastructure observability and management. Previously, Tom contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector and Prometheus. He draws on a strong cloud-native background, having previously created Grafana Tanka, an open-source tool for scalable Kubernetes configuration management. Tom has studied Computer Science at FU Berlin and has presented about observability and cloud-native topics at conferences such as FOSDEM, PromCon, and OTel Community Day.
📍 Venue: Humboldt Saal at Reservix GmbH, Humboldtstraße 2
🕓 Date & Time: Tuersday, 29.09.2026, 7 p.m.🤝 Networking and More:
After the talk, stay for drinks, snacks, and great conversations! This is a perfect opportunity to exchange ideas, meet fellow DevOps practitioners, and grow your local community connections.1 attendee
Past events
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