Name: GrafanaCON Local meetup: Berlin
Start: 2026-06-11T16:30:00.000Z
Location: SumUp Services GmbH

🚀 Bienvenue à l’édition de Mai de notre meetup Grafana & Friends France !

Nous sommes ravis de vous inviter au prochain meetup Grafana qui se déroulera dans les bureaux de WeScale, à Paris – un immense merci à eux pour leur accueil chaleureux !

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Les portes ouvrent à 18h30, et les présentations débuteront à 19h !

📋 **Au programme :**

🎙️ **OpenTelemetry à grande échelle : corréler les signaux et stratégie de sampling**
Déployer OpenTelemetry à grande échelle pose rapidement des défis de volume, de coûts et de lisibilité des données. Lorsque traces, métriques et logs se multiplient, il devient essentiel de conserver les bons signaux tout en préservant leur corrélation. Dans ce talk, nous verrons comment mettre en place des stratégies de sampling adaptées et comment maintenir la corrélation entre les signaux pour garder une observabilité exploitable dans des systèmes distribués à fort volume. À travers des exemples d’architecture et des bonnes pratiques, nous explorerons comment construire une pipeline OpenTelemetry scalable et efficace.

**Speaker**: Alain Pham, Principal Solutions Engineer chez Grafana Labs

🎙️ **Deuxième présentation à venir ;)**

Nos meetups sont ouverts à tous, débutants ou experts. Au plaisir de pouvoir vous y retrouver !
#Grafana #Observability #DevOps #SRE

Grafana & Friends France

Valentine Fauchard

Antoine Cochet

Dimitri Kneur

hanna

Majed Ghorbel

Anthony Freyermuth

Saliha

Alphonse Binam

Francois

oliviermarin92

Aurélien Trosseau

Stephan Gerard

eliot ctl

Fabricio

Jean michel Meulien

Jacques

wafo aristide

chappaz

Olivier Mengué

Isabelle Guitton

Grafana & Friends France : édition de Mai chez WeScale

WeScale

**Can’t make it to Barcelona?** A GrafanaCON Local meetup is coming to your city!
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!

Speakers:

* **Dee Kitchen, VP of Engineering at Grafana Labs**
* **Thanos Karachalios, Group Product Manager at Grafana Labs**

A big thank you to our host, BNY!

**🎟 Free to attend**
🍕 Pizza + soft drinks provided
🤝 Built for connection
💡 Real talks from real practitioners

**6:00 - 6:30:** Arrivals and pizza 🍕
**6:30 - 7:15:** GrafanaCON recap presentation – TBC
**7:15 - 7:30:** Q & A
**7:30 - 7:45:** Break ☕
**7:45 - 8:15:** Community lightning talks - TBC
**8:15 - 8:30:** Wrap up

### 📸 Important Information

* **Building Access (ID Required)**: Please bring a valid form of ID on the day, as it may be required for entry to the venue.
* **Photography & Media**: Photos and videos may be taken during the event. By registering and attending, you consent to being photographed/recorded. These materials may be used by Grafana Labs and the event host (BNY) for social media, marketing, and internal communications.
* **GDPR & Data Usage**: By signing up, you agree that your registration details (such as name and email) may be shared with the event host (BNY) strictly for event logistics, including building access and attendee management. Your data will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection regulations.
* **Dietary Requirements**: If you have any allergies or dietary requirements, please inform us in advance so we can accommodate you.

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 London

Ewa M.

Grafana Community

Simon Prickett

Uday

Stella Englezou

Adam Kaczmarski

Rahim Afful-Brown

Naveed Ausaf

Tim Chettle

Bilal Ahmad

Faidh

chandra bhanu dixit

Norbert D'souza

Ali Umair

Adrian

Aszad

Petter Axby

Eileen

xiu bao

Ejimofor Nwoye

GrafanaCON Local meetup: London

BNY Office

A taste of [GrafanaCON](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/) is coming to you, Amsterdam!

📕 **Agenda**
**17:30** Open doors.
**18:00** Food & Drinks
**18:30** Talks start

1️⃣ **GrafanaCON recap presentation**
**[Imma Valls](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imma-valls/)**, Staff Developer Advocate at [Grafana Labs](https://grafana.com/)
We will present the key points and most relevant announcements from the GrafanaCON 2026 keynote.
2️⃣ **Peripheral observability: Why 72px micro-dashboards beat wall displays in incident response**
**[Gerard de Jong](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerarddiederikdejong/)**, Aspiring Software Super-villain at [ABN AMRO Bank](https://www.abnamro.com/)
Gerard de Jong used to believe the same lie everyone else does: More screen = more observability.
But then he hacked a Stream Deck to show 72x72 pixel Grafana dashboard panels, always visible in his peripheral vision, and it completely changed how he handles incidents. Suddenly: No more hunting for the right browser tab. No more joining calls are already behind. No more surprises when an alert fires.
While wall displays are great for high-level status, they fail during the "fog of war" of an active incident. Peripheral vision is tuned for motion and patterns, not dense charts. That’s why car dashboards, cockpits, and game HUDs all put tiny signals just below the line of sight.
In this lightning talk, Gerard demonstrates how and why small displays make this possible (be it on a Stream Deck, a Raspberry Pi, or everything in between), the layouts that actually work, and why micro-dashboards let you often see anomalies before alerts fire while everyone else is still opening Grafana.
This is not a toy – it’s a practical hack for real on-call life.
Learn:

* How 72x72 pixels can outperform a wall display.
* How to design Grafana for glance-first awareness.
* Secure Grafana API integration via encrypted tokens.
* How to escape tab blindness during incidents.
* Ready-to-use patterns for Stream Deck + Grafana.

3️⃣ **Living on the Edge: Where IT and OT Meet**
**[Benoit Schipper](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoitschipper/)**, Field CTO at [HCS Company](https://www.hcs-company.com/)
The industrial world is no longer an island. As the gap between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) continues to shrink, the "Edge" has become the critical frontier for innovation, data processing, and real-time decision-making.
In this session, we explore the practical realities of industrial digitalization through the lens of a Siemens IOT2050 setup. We will dive into how this hardware acts as a gateway, translating the rugged, protocol-heavy language of the factory floor into the scalable, data-driven environment of modern IT.
In this presentation, I will touch upon the following:

* The core architecture is required to bridge PLC environments with cloud or local IT infrastructures.
* Why we chose the Siemens IOT2050 as our preferred "Edge" device for balancing industrial durability with open-source flexibility.
* Mastering the constraints: Key lessons learned from deploying a "living" setup that manages data at the source while navigating the challenges of limited RAM on the edge.

Whether you are working in IT or OT as an engineer or architect, this 20-minute deep dive provides insights for navigating the intersection of hardware, connectivity, and open-source tools, and the ultimate reason for liberating data on the industrial edge.

🏢 **Location**
**HCS Company**: Anthony Fokkerweg 61\, Amsterdam \| [https://maps.app.goo.gl/LPMZKBzB7MutGrZb6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/LPMZKBzB7MutGrZb6).
The HCS Company office is easily accessible by both car and public transport. You can park your car on their premises; ample parking is beyond the barrier. If you come by public transport, you can get off at the Henk Sneevlietweg metro station; from there, it is a 10-minute walk.

Many thanks to our good friends at [HCS Company](https://www.hcs-company.com/), who have kindly offered to host us at their Amsterdam office 🫶

We are looking forward to seeing you 🎉!

Grafana & Friends Amsterdam

Benoit Schipper

Imma Valls

Marcel Kerker

hitesh Madan

al_shopov

Yura (Iurii) Shutkin

Luca

Boris

Ed Wijk

Ketan Patel

Loki reddy

Mark Oppelaar

Frans Geenen

GrafanaCON Local meetup: Amsterdam at HCS Company

HCS Company

**Couldn't make it to Barcelona?** A GrafanaCON Local meetup is coming to your city! 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.
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
**6:30 - 6:45:** Arrivals and pizza 🍕
**6:45 - 7:30:** GrafanaCON recap presentation – Richi Hartmann
**7:30 - 7:45:** Q & A
**7:45 - 8:00:** Break ☕
**8:00 - 8:30:** Community lightning talks [tbc]
**8:30 - 9:00:** Discussion and more pizza 🍕

Note that by registering for this specific GrafanaCon Local event you consent to related event & product communications from Grafana Labs.
This is not the case for our normal Meetups.

We follow our [code of conduct](https://grafana.com/events/events-code-of-conduct/).

Grafana & Friends Munich

Richard Hartmann

Sebastian Schubert

Vitalii Grygoruk

Ashwani Sharma

Nikita Vakula

Oleg

Witek

Iuliia Eremina-Dracheva

Meelad

Edgar Alejandro Pisano Rodriguez

Mustafa Hussen

Frank Merwerth 

Ingo Averdunk

Ahmed Mubbashir Khan

Andi Nitsche

Mathias Münch

BADAT 

Prof.Dr. Ing. Ebada

Erwin Ewore

Fatjon Nebiu

GrafanaCON Local meetup: Munich 

ecos work spaces

**Registration is still open for [GrafanaCON](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/agenda/#register)**, our biggest community conference bringing the global Grafana community together in Barcelona on April 20–22. Expect two days of practitioner-led talks, project announcements, and hallway-track conversations, plus the Ask the Experts booth and Science Fair in the expo hall, and an optional Day 0 of hands-on labs.

**Can’t make it to Barcelona?** A GrafanaCON Local meetup is coming to your city! 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.

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

**6:30 - 6:45:** Arrivals and pizza 🍕
**6:45 - 7:30:** GrafanaCON recap presentation – David Kaltschmidt
**7:30 - 7:45:** Q & A
**7:45 - 8:00:** Break ☕
**8:00 - 8:30:** Community lightning talks [tbc]
**8:30 - 9:00:** 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 Berlin

Micha 

Mohamed Chiheb ben Jemaa

Sibu Thomas Mathew

Lovish Arora

Ivan Petrichenko

Philipp 

Heramb

Elisabeth V

sarath s kumar

Murali Soundararajan

Dmytro Prokhorenkov

elif akten

Luis

Reza Malek

Giuseppe

Michele Adduci

Gabriel Cosi

Pawel Nabe

bogdan.yakovenko301

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