Name: GrafanaCON Local meetup: Stockholm at Embark Studios
Start: 2026-05-28T15:30:00.000Z
Location: Embark Studios

We’re excited to invite you to the very first Grafana & Friends meetup in Brno! 🚀

Brno has a great tech community, and it’s about time we brought Grafana & Friends here. Whether you’re deep into observability, just getting started with Grafana, or simply curious about open source monitoring - this is your meetup.

A massive thank you to our friends at **OpenSSL** for generously hosting us at their Brno office for this inaugural event! 🫶

🗓️ **March 19, 2026, 18:00 - 21:00**
📍 **OpenSSL office**, Kotlářská 989/51a, Brno

**Agenda**
18:00 - 18:30 - Welcome, snacks, drinks & networking
18:30 - 18:40 - Meetup introduction & a few words from our host
18:40 - 19:15 — Talk 1: “How We Use Grafana at OpenSSL” — Dmitri Misharov (🇬🇧 in English)
19:15 - 19:25 — Short break
19:25 - 20:00 — Talk 2: “Observability at Scale at Seznam.cz” — Martin Chodur (🇨🇿 in Czech)
20:00 - 21:00 - Beers & Networking 🍻

🎙️ **Speakers**

1️⃣ **Dmitri Misharov** — OpenSSL (🇬🇧 in English)
**How We Use Grafana at OpenSSL: From Performance Regressions to Infrastructure Monitoring**

Dmitri will share how the OpenSSL team leverages Grafana across multiple areas of their work — catching performance regressions in the OpenSSL library, tracking GitHub issues KPIs, monitoring OpenSSL library downloads, and keeping an eye on their infrastructure. A great look behind the scenes of one of the most critical open source projects in the world.

2️⃣ **Martin Chodur** — Seznam.cz (🇨🇿 in Czech)
**Our Observability Setup at Scale**

Martin will walk us through how Seznam.cz — one of the largest Czech tech companies — runs their observability stack at serious scale, with a setup tightly integrated with GitOps. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to run monitoring infrastructure at this level, this is the talk for you.

💡 **What is Grafana & Friends?**
Grafana & Friends is a worldwide community of meetups bringing together people who are passionate about observability, open source, and building great developer tooling. With 78 groups across 33 countries and over 34,000 members, we’re one of the largest observability communities out there. From Zurich to Kolkata, London to San Francisco, Stockholm to Pune — and now **Brno**!

Each meetup is a mix of technical talks, real-world stories, and plenty of time to grab a drink and connect with fellow engineers. Some events feature deep-dive presentations, others are more casual — but they all share the same spirit: learn something new, meet great people, and have fun.

🍕 **What to expect**

* Two talks from speakers working on interesting projects in the observability and infrastructure space
* Snacks and drinks to kick things off
* Plenty of time for Q&A and open discussion after the talks
* Cold beers and networking to close out the evening
* Stickers!

Our meetups are open to everyone — seasoned SREs, platform engineers, developers, students, or anyone curious about how modern monitoring and observability work. No prior Grafana experience needed. Just bring yourself and your curiosity!

We’re looking forward to meeting the Brno tech community. See you there! 🎉

Grafana & Friends Brno

Andrej Kiripolsky

Jára Benc

Fusakla Martin Chodúr

Tomáš Kozák

Ivana

Iryna Kopyl

marcelfrajt

Alaine Vicedor

Oleksii

Zuzana Majercakova

Michail Ivanov

Martin Cetkovský

Dmitry Misharov

Ramanujam N.R.

GoodMirek

Radka Ďuriačová

elena.kiripolska

Vladimir Pilat

Grafana & Friends Brno #1 - The Inaugural Meetup!

OpenSSL Corporation

🗒️ **Details**
Join us for an observability-focused meetup hosted at **Autotrader** **Manchester!** This event is an opportunity to dive deep into advanced Grafana features and modern observability practices. Learn how to transform real-world data into actionable insights, explore zero-code instrumentation, and discover practical patterns you can apply to your own monitoring and dashboards.

📋 **Agenda**

🎉 **18:00 Introductions & snacking time** Kick off the evening with a warm welcome, snacks and some 🍺 cold drinks!

🎙️ **18:30 Talk: Tracking Down Traitors with Grafana SQL Expressions**
**Talk Description:** The Traitors has become a huge TV phenomenon, and instead of just shouting at the TV, we turned the latest series into data! In this talk, you'll see how to track the twists and turns of complex datasets and transform them into colorful Grafana dashboards using nothing more than a Google Sheet and Grafana's SQL Expressions feature. Walk away with a clear mental model of SQL Expressions, concrete patterns you can reuse in your own business dashboards, and maybe even a new appreciation for reality TV as a data source!
**Level:** Beginner to Intermediate (basic Grafana dashboard concepts and SQL knowledge helpful but not required)
**Speaker:** Simon Prickett, Senior Developer Advocate @ Grafana Labs

🎙️ **19:15 Talk: Introduction to Grafana Beyla and OBI**
**Talk Description:** Learn about zero-code instrumentation through Grafana Beyla and OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation projects. Find out where auto-generated metrics and traces come from, and how correlation is achieved through W3C Trace Context propagation. Perfect for teams looking to streamline their observability setup without extensive manual instrumentation.
**Level:** Intermediate
**Speaker:** Stephen Lang, Staff Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs.

💬 20:00 Networking and Q&As
🔚 20:30 The End

The event is well-suited for DevOps and Site-Reliability engineers, and we welcome people who are new to Grafana or observability. We look forward to seeing you all there!

#Grafana #Observability #Loki #IncidentManagement #DevOps #SRE

Grafana & Friends Manchester

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Omowunmi Sogunle

Alex Kay

Stefan Petre

Masiye K

Sheddy Nathan Akintayo

Oluwadare Seyi

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Wale Martins

Olajide Ibrahim Adeluwoye

Sachin Sethi

Teodor Todorov

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Vishnu Vivekanandan

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Grafana & Friends Manchester Inaugural Event: SQL + OpenTelemetry eBPF

Autotrader

In this Campfire Community call, we'll be exploring Grafana's release pipelines - covering both our on-prem (public and private) artifact delivery and our Rolling Release Channels for building Grafana Cloud.

We'll walk through the fundamentals of how our pipelines work, including how ICs can patch branches and manage their own core Grafana releases, and where we're headed in the future.
Plus much more!

**Hosts:** [Syed Usman Ahmad](https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux/) and [Mat Ryer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matryer/)
**Experts:** [Tim Levett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timlevett/), [Jev Forsberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jev-forsberg/), [Robert Horvath](https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberthorvath89/)
**Moderators:** [Carl Bergquist](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlbergquist/)

**Link to Join the Stream:**
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REsiK0cDgvA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REsiK0cDgvA)
💡 Tip: Click on the "Notify me" 🔔 icon to get notified once the stream goes live.

**Ask your Questions (anonymously):**
Please feel free to ask your questions (anonymously) using this [Google Doc file link](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GpgvanMeNqf-CDegv6E0yAV1s2f7H2knUFuNouqwX3A/edit?tab%3Dt.lm728fbg09f2%23heading%3Dh.ylvmlwoijjkx&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1774085986102752&usg=AOvVaw30ZpvBJE8fSFL1IctucUgb).

OR

Feel free to use the YouTube live chat feature 📝 to start submitting questions, and we will add them to the agenda.

**Link to Join the Community:**
[https://community.grafana.com/](https://community.grafana.com/)

We looking forward to see and answer all your questions 🙂

Grafana & Friends Virtual Meetup Group

Syed Usman Ahmad

Grafana Campfire 🔥 Release Pipelines - (Grafana Community Call - Mar 2026)

Online event

**Un assaggio di [GrafanaCON](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/) arriva a Milano!**

Unisciti alla tua community locale di observability per una serata all’insegna dell'ispirazione open source, storie dal mondo reale e networking di valore, il tutto in un'atmosfera informale in stile meetup.
L’evento proporrà un riepilogo della keynote di [GrafanaCON](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/), arricchito dal contributo di nuove voci della tua community. I membri del team di Grafana presenteranno Grafana 13 e le novità più importanti della piattaforma. Scopri come Grafana stia diventando più semplice e sicuro da gestire come infrastruttura di produzione, con aggiornamenti che migliorano la gestione delle configurazioni, il ripristino e la manutenibilità a lungo termine. La sessione mostrerà i progressi significativi nei flussi di lavoro principali degli utenti, inclusi dashboard più flessibili, potenti e con prestazioni ottimizzate.
Che tu stia costruendo dashboard, scalando Kubernetes, contribuendo all’open source o sia solo all'inizio: questo meetup è per te!

🎟 Partecipazione gratuita
🍕 Aperitivo e bibite incluse
🤝 Pensato per il networking
💡 Testimonianze reali da professionisti del settore

**Agenda:**
17:00 - 17:15: Accoglienza e registrazione
17:15 - 18:15: Presentazione riepilogativa GrafanaCON
18:15 - 18:30: Sessione Q&A (Domande e risposte)
18:30 - 18:45: Lightning talks della community
18:45 - 20:00: Discussione e aperitivo

*Nota: registrandoti a questo evento, acconsenti a ricevere comunicazioni relative all'evento e ai prodotti da parte di Grafana Labs e accetti il nostro codice di condotta.*

Grafana & Friends Italy

nuria.sevilla

GrafanaCON Local Milano

Milano LUISS Hub

A taste of [GrafanaCON](https://grafana.com/events/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](https://grafana.com/events/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!

Note that by registering for this event you consent to related event & product communications from Grafana Labs and agree to our [code of conduct](https://grafana.com/events/events-code-of-conduct/).

Grafana & Friends Stockholm

Grafana Community

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Micke Nimell

Kehinde PioTr Olubayo

Ayoub Hashemi

Anton

Xinyi Wang

Patricia

Mika Timonen

Carl Bergquist

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Johan Gustafson

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