Name: GrafanaCON Local Meetup: Raleigh
Start: 2026-06-04T21:30:00.000Z
Location: Raleigh Founded

**🗒️ Details**
Join us for an AI in observability-focused meetup hosted at the Car Gurus offices! This event is a unique opportunity to gain insights into Grafana and observability stacks.

Enjoy a chance to network with fellow enthusiasts and savor some delicious pizza!

We'll hear about using AI in observability! More details about the topics to come soon, but mark your calendars!

**📋 Agenda**

* **🎉 6 PM arrival** \- food / drinks
Kick off the evening with a warm welcome and even warmer 🍕 pizzas!
* **🔥 6:30 PM** \- Running Grafana at Scale: A Better Together Story with Cast AI \(Phil Andrews\, Global Field CTO at Cast AI\)
Grafana provides comprehensive observability into cluster and application health, giving teams visibility into performance metrics, logs, and system behavior. Cast AI takes this a step further by using its AI-driven optimization to ensure Grafana itself runs efficiently in Kubernetes - right-sizing workloads, optimizing resource allocation, and scaling intelligently based on actual usage patterns.
* **🔥** **7:15 PM** \- The Lifecycle of Observability Systems: How Monitoring Gets Harder From Startups to Enterprises \(Aaron "Checo" Pacheco\, Founder/CEO at Ottermon AI\)
Checo has extensive observability experience at all scales and will share lessons on designing and growing monitoring systems.
* 🗣️ **8:00 - 9PM** \- Discussion

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

#Grafana #Observability #DevOps #SRE #AI

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Join us for an AI-in-Observability meetup! This is a great opportunity to explore how AI is shaping modern observability and learn more about Grafana and the broader observability ecosystem. Connect with fellow practitioners, exchange ideas, and enjoy some delicious pizza while you’re at it.

We’ll dive into real-world use cases of AI in observability — more details on the sessions coming soon. Stay tuned and mark your calendars!

Your AI agents are running in production. But can you actually see what they're doing? Those tokens don't count themselves! Join us to dig into AI Observability — one of the fastest-growing challenges in the cloud-native space.

Here's what we're covering:
🔍 Monitoring agentic AI frameworks before issues become incidents
📊 Building powerful dashboards with AI-assisted workflows
🔓 Why OpenTelemetry and open-source standards matter more than ever

We'll also explore how Grafana and [Google Cloud](https://www.linkedin.com/company/google-cloud/) work alongside each other build observable, production-ready AI systems!

**Special thanks to The Aspen Group and Joel Vasallo for hosting us at their downtown office.**

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Mark Gittings

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

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 keynote, combined with fresh voices from your own community.

Grafana team members will 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:**
6:00 - 6:15: Arrivals and pizza
6:15 - 7:00: GrafanaCON recap presentation
7:00 - 7:15: Q&A
7:15 - 7:30: Community lightning talks [pending]
7:30 - 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/).*

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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 keynote, combined with fresh voices from your own community.

Grafana team members will 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:**
5:00 - 5:15: Arrivals and pizza
5:15 - 6:00: GrafanaCON recap presentation
6:00 - 6:15: Q&A
6:15 - 6:30: Community lightning talks [pending]
6:30 - 7:00: 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/).*

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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 keynote, combined with fresh voices from your own community.

Grafana team members will 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
6:30 - 6:45: Q&A
6:45 - 7:00: Community lightning talks [pending]
7:00 - 7:30: 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/).*

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