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We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming in-person meetup in Bangalore!

This time, we’re teaming up with Grafana and Smarsh for an engaging session where observability practitioners, developers, and SREs will come together to share insights, best practices, and real-world experiences.

Kong makes connecting APIs, microservices, event streaming across today’s serverless, hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster than ever. We power trillions of API transactions for leading organisations globally through our Unified API Management platform and Now, with the Kong AI Gateway, we're bringing the power of AI to your APIs.
Let’s come together to share knowledge, forge connections, and toast to a more reliable future!

📅 Date: 11th October, 2025
📍 Location: Smarsh Inc, Second Floor, Salarpuria Cambridge, 9, Cambridge Rd, Halasuru, Udani Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560008
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/t59NTCtEHHVEGAbi6

🕒 Schedule:
11:00 AM - Check In and Kick off the event
come, check in the venue, settle in and kick off the event.
11:30 - 12:00: [Talk] When APIs Misbehave: Modern Detective Work with Smart Debugging
When APIs misbehave, the real cause often hides in the shadows DNS, upstreams, gateways, or something deeper.
In this talk, a smarter way of debugging will be revealed: how deep, targeted visibility into API traffic can be unlocked without the burden of always-on monitoring. The question is—are you ready to see what your APIs are really doing?
Speaker: Shreyas Sreenivas
Shreyas is a Software Developer passionate about building scalable systems from 0 to 1. He works on distributed systems, Go, Kubernetes, and SaaS control planes.
Talk to him about system design, scaling distributed infrastructure, and control planes.

12:00 - 12:30: [Talk] Observability at Petabyte scale.
Suresha from Smarsh show how they do Observability at scale, and show their Observability architecture
Speaker: Suresha Posavalike
Suresha is an SRE Manager focused on observability and reliability. He started out as a developer, moved through application engineering, and now leads efforts to keep systems resilient and running smoothly.
Talk to him about SRE practices, observability, and reliability engineering — and on the personal side, about his journey from development to operations.

12:30-12:45: Short Break
12:45 - 13:15: [Talk] Monitoring the Monitors? Meta Monitoring in Practice
what happens when the monitoring systems themselves fail? This talk goes in details of the principles and practices of meta monitoring, where you have out of band monitoring for the monitoring systems itself.
Speaker: Suraj Sidh
Suraj is Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on Grafana Tempo, he also maintains Prometheus Blackbox Exporter.
Talk to him about Distributed Tracing, and on the personal side 3D priting, Coffee and Tea.

13:15 - 13:30: Close Off
Close off the event with thanks to host, speakers and attenddes. grab something to eat, ask your questions to speakers, network with the folks and close off the event.
13:30 - 14:00: Networking

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