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!
š¤ Interested in speaking?
Weāre always looking for meetup speakers! Submit your talk ideas here, and weāll reach out with next steps if your proposal is accepted.
Grafana & Friends meetups arenāt 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.Ā
Learn:
- YouTube: From getting started to exploring newer projects like Pyroscope and Beyla, the Grafana YouTube channel has what you need to get started!Ā
Contribute:
- Github: Check out our open github repositories to report bugs and contribute code
- Meetups and blogs: Weād 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 weāll connect with you on next steps if accepted.Ā
- Champions: Join the Grafana Champions program! Itās 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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Grafana&Friends š¤ Apache KafkaĀ®
Sunrise, Thurgauerstrasse 101B, Glattpark (Opfikon), ZH, CHWe're thrilled to invite you to our next meetup, a joint event with the Zurich Apache KafkaĀ® community š„
Many thanks to our great friends at Sunrise, who have kindly offered to host us at their office š«¶
šļø March 9, 2026
šSunrise: Ambassador House, Thurgauerstrasse 101B, 8152 Glattpark (Opfikon) | https://maps.app.goo.gl/2pLV5duBYj3vwdDt5
St. Gallen meeting roomš Agenda
18:00 - 18:30: Grab a drink and take your seat
18:30 - 18:40: Meetup introduction & some words from the host
18:40 - 19:15: Talk 1
19:15 - 19:45: Talk 2
20:00 - 21:00: ApƩro & Networking
21:00 - 21:10: Event and venue closure1ļøā£ "Supercharging Grafana with Community Plugins" by Imma Valls, Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs
Grafana is powerful on its own, but its true potential lies in its vibrant community of plugin developers. In this talk, we'll dive into how community plugins extend Grafana's core functionality, enabling you to connect to a broader range of data sources and visualize your data in new ways. We'll introduce the Kafka Data Source plugin as a practical example, demonstrating how it enables you to query and visualize Kafka topic data directly in your dashboards, without requiring intermediate storage or external services.2ļøā£ "From Stream to Table: Building Kafka-to-Iceberg Pipelines", by Will Martin is the EMEA Evangelist at Dremio.
While Kafka excels at streaming data, the real challenge lies in making that data analytically useful without sacrificing consistency or performance. This talk explores why Apache Iceberg has emerged as the ideal streaming destination, offering ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel capabilities that traditional data lakes can't match. Learn about some foundational tools that enable streaming pipelines and why they all converge on this next-generation table format built for flexibility and scalability.We are looking forward to seeing you š!
15 attendees
Past events
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