About us
This Grafana & Friends meetup group hosts events focused on open source monitoring and observability using Grafana and related technologies. Some meetups feature formal presentations, while others are more relaxed and discussion-driven. Every event is designed to encourage learning, connection, and community. Snacks and stickers included!
🎤 Interested in speaking?
We’re always looking for meetup speakers! Submit your talk ideas here, and we’ll reach out with next steps if your proposal is accepted.
Grafana & Friends meetups aren’t the only way to connect with the community! Explore additional ways to get involved below:
Interact and be heard:
- Forums: Do you have a problem, question, or curiosity? Visit our forums for a reservoir of knowledge- submit your own questions and answers!
- Community Slack: Eager for real-time connections with fellow users? Begin a conversation on Slack.
Learn:
- YouTube: From getting started to exploring newer projects like Pyroscope and Beyla, the Grafana YouTube channel has what you need to get started!
Contribute:
- Github: Check out our open github repositories to report bugs and contribute code
- Meetups and blogs: We’d love to feature your OSS Grafana Labs use case or story at an upcoming Grafana & Friends meetup or on the Grafana blog! Submit your idea here and we’ll connect with you on next steps if accepted.
- Champions: Join the Grafana Champions program! It’s designed to recognize and empower individuals who are actively contributing to the growth and success of the Grafana ecosystem.
All events hosted by this group and communication on this platform are subject to Grafana Labs' Events Code of Conduct.
Upcoming events
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Grafana & Friends x Kubernetes Pune Happy Hours
InfraCloud - An Improving Company, 66, KVP Sapatnekar Marg, Anand Park, Aundh, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, INDIA, Pune, INGet ready for an exciting event with Grafana & Friends Pune: Happy Hours! Grafana Labs is all set to host its next happy hour with wonderful Recap of GrafanCon happening this year in collaboration with Kubernetes Pune and InfraCloud - An Improving Company.
Agenda:
Here's the detailed agenda of the meetup :-
10:00 am - Intro and Welcome
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10:30 am- 11:10 am:
Session 1: Anatomy of an Incident: Chasing Real Signals, Swapnil Kulkarni (Head Customer Success & Growth at Kloudfuse)
About Session: Every system failure tells a story, but finding the narrative requires filtering out the noise. In this talk, we dissect a real production incident to explore how engineers identify true causal factors during a high-pressure outage. -
11:15 am - 11:55 am:
Session 2: Build Your Own Grafana MCP for Intelligent Issue Analysis, Tamal Karmakar (Sr. Software engineer at Microsoft)
About Session: Modern observability platforms generate massive amounts of metrics, logs, traces, and alerts, but finding the root cause of an incident often requires navigating multiple dashboards and complex queries. What if you could simply ask an AI assistant what is happening in your environment and receive actionable insights?
In this session, we'll explore how to build a custom Grafana MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that enables AI assistants to interact directly with Grafana. We'll walk through designing MCP tools that can query dashboards, retrieve metrics, analyze alerts, correlate logs, and assist with root cause investigations. -
12 noon - 12:40 pm:
Session 3: Surviving Debezium CDC from Single-Primary MongoDB Through RabbitMQ to Elasticsearch, Aseem Khandekar (Technical Lead at ChatDaddy)
About Session: Users saw stale data before we did. Silent CDC lag, expired resume tokens, no alarms. Here's how we made data freshness a first-class observability signal and recovered without a full reindex. -
12:40 pm - 01:30 pm:
Networking, and Snacks
We look forward to meeting you in person for a morning filled with insightful sessions, networking, and shared experiences! For any questions or to express interest in future speaking opportunities, please contact the organizers.
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Past events
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