GrafanaCON 2024
2024-04-09..2024-04-10
Amsterdam, Netherlands
who it's for
observability engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, data engineers, Grafana plugin developers, machine learning engineers
topics
Grafana 11 Explore Metrics; Loki 3.0 bloom-filter index; Grafana Alloy OpenTelemetry collector; Grafana Mimir long-term Prometheus; Explore Logs field extraction; Operator reconciler SLO app; Synthetic monitoring with k6; eBPF distributed tracing (Beyla); Infinity plugin data sources; LLM-powered Grafana apps
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Grafana 11, Loki 3.0, Alloy, Golden Grot Awards, and more | Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard | 49m |
Announces Grafana 11 with a live demo of Grafana 11 Explore Metrics that auto-generates PromQL (percentiles, heatmaps), adds a history trail and label… | ||
| Grafana in Space: Monitoring Japan's SLIM Moon Lander in Real Time | Satoshi Nakahira | 20m |
Japan lands SLIM on the Moon on January 19, 2024 with a pinpoint within 100 meters accuracy, and the operations team streams the same Grafana screens to the… | ||
| Grafana 11 deep dive | Mitch Seaman, Mihaela Maior | 32m |
Grafana 11 adds concrete, tested features: Explore gets Content Outline, a new logs table, TraceQL-powered Tempo search and much easier correlations; the… | ||
| 5 Years in, Loki Turns 3.0 | Owen Diehl | 29m |
Loki 3.0 ships with native OTel support, a bloom-filter based “sketch” index that automatically rejects useless chunks, and a new Explore Logs UI so developers… | ||
| How CERN Monitors the World's Largest Computing Grid with Grafana and Mimir | Nikolay Tsvetkov | 25m |
CERN describes a monitoring pipeline that ingests about 85,000 documents/sec (≈3.3 TB/day) from 200 producers and 15,000 hosts, backs metrics in… | ||
| How Planted Ramps Up Food Production Faster with Grafana's Single Pane of Glass | Mathias Pawlowsky | 18m |
Planted uses Grafana as a single pane of glass to cut product ramp-up time by turning factory OT signals into actionable observability: ingesting 10 million… | ||
| Grafana at Continental Scale: Monitoring the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) | Robert Hamnett | 26m |
NEON monitors 47 terrestrial and 34 aquatic field sites, ingesting 23,000 unique data streams from 3,500 data loggers (about 5 billion points per day) and… | ||
| Introducing Grafana Alloy, A Distribution of the OTel Collector | Matt Durham, Paschalis Tsilias | 26m |
Grafana Alloy is a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector that actually merges OTel and Prometheus: components form programmable pipelines, secret exports… | ||
| A User's Guide to the Open Source Grafana App Platform | Ryan McKinley, Stephanie Hingtgen | 23m |
Grafana Labs opens an open source Grafana App Platform that gives plugins real object storage, schemas and API versioning, event watch events instead of… | ||
| How We Built a Complex SLO App Tightly Integrated with Grafana | Joe Blubaugh | 23m |
Grafana Cloud SLO app implements an Operator/Reconciler pattern that watches typed SLO objects and asynchronously creates recording rules, alerting rules, and… | ||
| Where DevOps Meets QA: An Observability & Synthetic Testing Success Story | Dionysis Tsoumas, Ioannis Papadakis | 28m |
GWI turns k6 browser end-to-end scripts into Kubernetes CronJobs that run every five minutes, export Google Core Web Vitals and custom metrics via k6… | ||
| Obirdability: Building an Observability System for Bird Songs | Sven Großmann, Ivana Huckova | 19m |
A working pipeline captures bird sound with a USB mic + Raspberry Pi, runs BirdNET locally, sends detection logs via Grafana Agent into Loki → Grafana and… | ||
| OpenTelemetry Looks Good To Me: Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir | Clément Boudereau | 17m |
Two small Java apps run via docker-compose and send metrics, traces and logs through an collector-contrib gateway to Loki, Tempo and Mimir with Grafana… | ||
| IoT on Your Smartphone: Visualizing Mobile Sensor Data with Grafana | Guillermo Ruiz | 16m |
Claims smartphones can act as IoT nodes using built-in sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, barometer, LiDAR, GPS) and streams those readings to… | ||
| Grafana Plugin Development for Beginners | David Harris, Marcus Andersson | 31m |
Single-command scaffolding with create-plugin generates a data source plus Go backend, CI GitHub workflows and a Docker compose dev environment with hot… | ||
| All About the Amazon CloudWatch Data Source in Grafana | Faisal Shahdad | 16m |
Shows how to add the CloudWatch data source to an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace, how IAM and AWS Identity Center permissions are granted automatically, and… | ||
| Data Management & Monitoring at The National Library of the Netherlands | Gerard van Engelen | 18m |
The National Library moves from static logs to a live observability stack: Grafana + Mimir + Loki running on two bare‑metal Grafana servers with Postgres… | ||
| How Visualizing Logs Converted to Traces Can Uncover Performance Problems | Cees Bos | 24m |
Logs from a JMS server and an LDAP auth server get parsed into traces using Promtail and Loki and a small Java tool that emits a custom trace file. Queries… | ||
| AI/ML + Grafana: How to Create Intelligent Grafana Apps Leveraging LLMs | Nathan Marrs | 23m |
Grafana adds an LLM application plugin and embeds LLMs into Scenes apps to power concrete features: a dashboard assistant that generates panel… | ||
| Beyla: Zero-Code Distributed Traces & Metrics for Your Microservices with eBPF | Mario Macías | 15m |
Beyla claims to auto-instrument running services without redeploys by attaching eBPF programs on hosts and in Kubernetes, requiring only two config items… | ||
| Infinity (Plugin) and Beyond: The Future of Grafana's Data Source Ecosystem | Sriramajeyam Sugumaran, Andriy Urbanas | 31m |
Infinity is a universal Grafana data source that pulls from any REST endpoint and parses JSON, CSV, XML or HTML, offers frontend UQL and a backend parser for… | ||
| Operations report: Running Loki on Different On-Prem Environments | Robert Jacob | 15m |
Red Hat migrates Elasticsearch-based OpenShift logging to Loki using an in-cluster Loki Operator, already deployed to over 1,000 clusters; predefined sizes… | ||
| The Evolution of Grafana Alerting | Jean-Philippe Quéméner, Alexander Weaver | 20m |
Timeline shows concrete moves: panel alerts in Grafana 4.0 (2016), notification dedup with SQL transactions arrives in 4.2, external Prometheus Alertmanager… | ||
| Building Interactive Grafana Dashboards for Business Intelligence | Chris Shih | 22m |
Grafana dashboards pull BigQuery source data into interactive UI elements that behave like mini data apps: live dashboard variables feed SQL via a time filter… | ||
| The road to + big news for ! | Matt Toback, Carl Bergquist, Mihaela Maior | 02m |
GrafanaCON returns to Amsterdam in April as the first in‑person community event in five years, with a call for presentations open now for talks on Grafana, the… | ||
| Tips When Applying for CFP and Golden Grot Awards: Judges Share Details | Nicole van der Hoeven, Mihaela Maior, Carl Bergquist | 13m |
Golden Grot submissions split into two winners: professional (focus on business value, data sources, blast radius) and personal (quirky, emotion-driven… | ||
| How to Monitor Steel Alloys with Grafana | Christopher Field | 05m |
Theia Scientific streams room-sized electron microscope images into a time-series database and ML pipeline that draws outlines and measures defects… | ||
| How to Monitor Your Commute with Grafana | Ruben Fernandez | 04m |
Built with Grafana and live feeds, a commuter dashboard aggregates real-time bus locations (lat/long points that animate on the map), freeway congestion… | ||
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