We’re back with a new **Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OpenTelemetry** **Community Call** episode, and this time we’re diving into **logging with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Loki**!

Even better, we’re joined by two fantastic guests: **Jack Berg**, OTel logging expert, and **Ed Welch**, Loki guru. Getting both of them in one conversation makes for an amazing deep-dive into all things logging.

Logs come in every shape and size, from simple CLI output to massive distributed systems generating petabytes of structured data. In this episode, we’ll talk about:

🔹The OTel story around logging, and whether we really need a new approach
🔹What structured logs are and why they matter
🔹How to think about rich identifiers like user_id and how to work with them in Loki
🔹Where OTel logging is headed and what it does take to support it on the backends
Join us for a great conversation - and bring your logging questions!

This event will be livestreamed on YouTube and published on the same link after the fact: https://www.youtube.com/live/D-bWeY-gBWU

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Join us for the December edition of Grafana and Friends Kurnool Meetup, where Observability practitioners and developers come together to share insights, best practices, and real-world experiences in Microservices world.

📅 **Date:** **18th December, 2025**
📍 **Location:** Online link will be updated here 2 days before the event.
🚀 **RSVP Timings:** 6th Dec 10:00 AM IST to 7th Dec 11:59 PM IST

**What to Expect:**

**Tech Talks:** Introductory session on logging with Grafana Loki
**Live Demos:** Demo showing a sample application and how application logs are collected and maintained using Grafana Loki and Alloy
**Who Should Attend?**
Whether you’re a SRE, DevOps Engineer or just getting started with observability, this meetup is for you!
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**🕒 Schedule:**
**10:30 AM - 10:45 AM -** Check In and Kick off the event
**Speaker: Kedar - Senior DevOps & SRE - TransUnion**
Seasoned SRE and DevOps enthusiast. Sharing knowledge and contributing to the Open Source community through technical blogs. Prometheus Certified Associate and Google Professional Cloud Architect.

**Speaker: Manjunath - Senior DevOps Engineer - Redica Systems**
An adaptable professional who specializes in microservices platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS & Linux Operating System

**10:45 AM - 11:30 AM -** [Talk] Introduction To Grafana Labs and Loki - Speaker: Manjunath

**11:30 AM - 12:30 PM -** [Demo] Understanding the deployment modes and Loki Demo - Speaker: Kedar

Close off the event with thanks to the host, speakers and attendees.
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**[Join the December LA DevOps x Grafana & Friends LA Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/ladevops/)**

[Dondy Aponte](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dondya/) and Dmitri Pappa *from [Grafana Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs) will be discussing Grafana MCP*

**6:00 - 6:30 Attendees arrive. Networking/Mingle**
**6:30 - 6:45 LA DevOps Welcome, Attendee Introductions**
**6:45 - 7:30** **To MCP or Not To MCP** by Ken Cavanagh
**7:30 - 8:00** Dondy Aponte & Dmitri Pappa present **Grafana MCP**
**8:00 - 9:00 Networking/Mingle**

**To MCP or Not MCP**
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is redefining how AI connects to tools and data. It’s gaining traction fast, but some say it’s over engineered. This talk breaks down what MCP is, why it matters, and when it’s worth building on.

**About Ken:**
Ken Cavanagh is an industrial psychologist, AI developer and co-founder of Agency/42, an innovation studio building AI products, MCPs, and applied AI strategies for clients.

**Grafana MCP**
The Grafana team shares how AI has been adopted by some of the world’s most popular dashboards and how MCP helps enable agentic workflows in their Observability stack.

**About Dmitri:**
Dmitri is a Grafana Solutions Engineer who helps customers improve enterprise visibility. He draws on extensive experience in problem-solving and automation at fortune 500 companies.

**About Dondy:**
[Dondy Aponte](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dondya/) is a Senior Solutions Engineer at [Grafana Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs), specializing in observability, cloud-native technologies, and digital transformation. With a strong background in IT strategy and infrastructure, he helps organizations optimize their observability and analytics capabilities to drive efficiency and innovation.

**About O'Brien's Pub on Wilshire:**
The covered patio at [Obrien's Pub](https://www.obriensla.com/) has been a great place to host LA DevOps meetups during our post covid revival.
Regarding parking, there are meters on Wilshire and the side streets that expire at 6.

**Present at an Upcoming LA DevOps Meetup**
If you would like to present at an upcoming LA DevOps meetup please send a message in meetup to the organizers with a proposed title and a sentence or two about the talk.

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LA DevOps x Grafana & Friends LA present: To MCP or Not MCP

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**Topic:** Holiday Special ✨🎄🎉 Year 2025 Recap
**Date:** Friday 19th December
**Time:** 1:30 PM UTC (3:30 PM CEST)

Join us for a very special episode where we will show a recap, how far we have reached to the community.

From the release of **Grafana version 12** to **GrafanaCON**, **ObsCON**, **KubeCON** and much more. We will see a quick recap of the episodes we did and what is also cooking for **year 2026** 😉

***Hosts:*** [Usman Ahmad](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux/&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1763834583099736&usg=AOvVaw2nPvkeNdU2ObmRmHBm_gTT), [David Kaltschmidt](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-kaltschmidt-7b08576b/&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1763834583099736&usg=AOvVaw1GtO2xlCwfvohKCpM_xQQ9), [Carl Bergquist](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlbergquist/) and [Mat Ryer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matryer/)

**Ask your Questions (anonymously):**

Please feel free to ask your questions (anonymously) using this [Google Doc file link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GpgvanMeNqf-CDegv6E0yAV1s2f7H2knUFuNouqwX3A/edit?tab=t.lm728fbg09f2#heading=h.ylvmlwoijjkx).

**Link to Join the YouTube Stream:**
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdTXcz_RtrY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdTXcz_RtrY)

**Tip:** Click on the **Notify me** 🔔 to get notified once the stream goes live. 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:** Here is the link to join the community:
[https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-campfire-holiday-special-year-2025-recap-grafana-community-call-dec-2025/160239](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-campfire-holiday-special-year-2025-recap-grafana-community-call-dec-2025/160239)

We looking forward to see and answer all your questions and also listen to your feedback! 🙂

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# 🌐 Grafana & Friends Hyderabad - **December 2025 Virtual Meetup**

### 📣 **Call for Proposals (CFP) Now Open!**

[Call for Papers: December Virtual Meetup – Fill out form](https://forms.office.com/r/BePq3sQJAp)
🗓 **Date:** 20 December 2025
⏰ **Time:** 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM IST
📍 **Location:** *We’re going virtual!* 💻✨

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The Grafana & Friends Hyderabad community is closing out 2025 with something truly special, our **first-ever fully virtual edition** of the meetup! 🎉
This isn’t just an online event, it’s a **major milestone** in our journey. Over the past year, we’ve grown together across Hyderabad’s vibrant tech scene from meetups at Microsoft, Silicon Labs, and community campuses to deep-dive sessions on Observability, k6, AI/LLMs, and OpenTelemetry.
And now, we’re thrilled to bring this energy to a global stage! 🌍
Whether you're tuning in from Hyderabad, Pune, Bengaluru, Singapore, Dubai, or anywhere across the world, this virtual meetup makes it possible for **EVERYONE** to join the Grafana & Friends experience.

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## 🎙️ **Why This Virtual Edition Is Special**

* 🌟 Our **first virtual meetup**, breaking physical boundaries
* 🌐 Opens the doors to **global participants & speakers**
* 🚀 Perfect for deep-dive technical demos, OSS showcases, and real-time dashboards
* 🎧 Smooth, interactive Q&A with both local and remote speakers
* 🔥 A perfect platform for community members to share their work with the world

This December, we’re celebrating how far the community has come and how much bigger our vision is becoming.

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## 📝 **CFP is OPEN!**

If you’re passionate about:

* Grafana / LGTM Stack
* OpenTelemetry
* k6 & distributed performance testing
* Observability for AI/LLMs
* SRE, DevOps, Chaos Engineering
* MCP (Model Context Protocol)
* Incident Intelligence, Automation, or AI Ops

**We want YOU on the virtual stage!**
Submit your talk, demo, lightning session, or workshop idea — and inspire the global community.
*(You can drop your title + short abstract, and we’ll guide you from there!)*
[Call for Papers: December Virtual Meetup – Fill out form](https://forms.office.com/r/BePq3sQJAp)

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## 🎉 Let’s End 2025 With Impact

Join us as we celebrate a massive community milestone and kick off a new era of hybrid and virtual Grafana & Friends events.
See you online on **20 December**, bringing the same passion, learning, and community vibes — now amplified and borderless. 💙📊🔥

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