GrafanaCON 2025: On-demand sessions are now available!

Last month we hosted our biggest GrafanaCON yet, bringing together observability enthusiasts from around the world for three days of open source discussions and community connections in Seattle.

GrafanaCON 2025 featured a packed agenda, with technical deep dives, user-led sessions, and a host of interactive activities that help you get more hands-on with the tech, foster your creativity, and build connections.

Today, we’re excited to share that GrafanaCON 2025 sessions are available on demand! So, if you weren’t able to join us in person, you can now catch up on all the latest announcements, OSS updates, and inspiring community use cases—right from home. 

Here, we highlight a handful of the on-demand sessions you can start watching today. To see the full line-up of on-demand sessions from the event, you can check out the GrafanaCON 2025 website.

From the Grafana Labs team

At GrafanaCON 2025, Grafana Labs team members shared the latest developments to our OSS projects, as well as best practices and insights to advance your observability strategy. Some of the on-demand sessions include:

GrafanaCON 2025 opening keynote

Nearly a dozen Grafanistas took part in the opening keynote, which serves as the official kickoff of our biggest community conference of the year. Grafana Labs CEO/Co-founder Raj Dutt and Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard celebrate the highlights from the past year, while members of our engineering team make some exciting announcements around our open source projects and unveil the highlights from Grafana 12.

Grafana 12 deep dive

Mitch Seaman, Senior Director of Product, and Mihaela Maior, Director of Engineering, lead the annual deep dive into the latest major release of your favorite dashboarding tool: Grafana 12. They’re joined by the engineers who built the new features and functionality for Grafana: from dashboards as code, config in git and dynamic dashboards to updates to alerting, and the app platform, and beyond.

Easier and faster exploration of complex metrics with Metrics Drilldown in Grafana

To help simplify complex metrics exploration, we introduced the Metrics Drilldown app for Grafana as a no-code way to quickly get insights into your data. In this lightning talk, Senior Software Engineer Brendan O’Handley demonstrates the power of Metrics Drilldown, including its novel approach to metrics exploration, integrating OpenTelemetry resource attributes with Prometheus labels; the configurable OTel experience accessible through a single interface; consolidated filtering across both Prometheus labels and OTel resource attributes; intelligent query interpolation for complex metric joins; and automatic context-aware metric filtering and breakdown.

And if you want to learn more about how Grafana Drilldown can help simplify your data exploration, don’t forget to check out our sessions on Logs Drilldown, Traces Drilldown, and Profiles Drilldown.

k6 1.0: How this long-awaited major release makes it easier to get started with testing

Testing, testing, 1, 2, … 1.0! Grafana k6 v1.0 is here. The developer-friendly open source load testing tool has reached this major milestone with stabilized core features and a new workflow that makes it easier to get started. In this session, k6 contributors Théo Crevon and Ayush Goyal demonstrate features such as native extensibility (no more xk6 workarounds); the OpenAPI converter to streamline and automate the creation of TypeScript-based tests; and k6 Studio, a desktop application that simplifies performance testing for everyone. 

Whether you are a backend developer, QA engineer, or DevOps professional, this session will equip you with the knowledge to get started quickly with k6 and take advantage of the now stable project.

Grafana Alloy: combining the OpenTelemetry Collector with a high-performance Prometheus pipeline

According to our third annual Observability Survey, 70% of organizations are using both Prometheus and OpenTelemetry in some capacity, with 34% using them in production environments. That’s why Grafana Alloy, the open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector, is focused on bringing together the best of OTel and Prometheus for a truly optimized hybrid experience. 

In this session, Developer Programs Director Ted Young and Senior Software Engineer Johanna Öjeling provide a demo of how Alloy delivers a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and a high-performance Prometheus pipeline in a single binary deployment; the debugging workflows; and the performance and cost savings users have seen running it at scale.

Agent-driven Grafana: Going beyond AI chat interactions

This talk explores how the use of LLMs is evolving from simple conversational interactions to active agents capable of executing tasks within the Grafana ecosystem. Yas Ekinci, Principal Engineer from the Grafana AI/ML team, demonstrates emerging patterns for agentic workflows that enable AI to directly interact with observability tools and data. This session features how LLM agents are being enabled to interact with Grafana and practical demonstrations of where these agent-based approaches improve observability workflows, reduce manual operations, and help teams navigate their monitoring environment more efficiently.

From the community

User voices are a cornerstone of any GrafanaCON. This year, community members shared how they’re using Grafana and its extended open source ecosystem for some fascinating, creative, and (quite literally) stellar use cases. Some of our on-demand GrafanaCON 2025 user stories include:

Dashboards to the moon: Grafana’s role in Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission operations

When it comes to spacecraft operations, there’s no room for error—having clear and insightful real-time data in front of you makes a real difference when you have to make critical decisions. On March 2, Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to complete a fully successful moon landing. And in this talk, Jesus Charles, Blue Ghost Mission 1 Flight Director, gives you an inside look at the mission, the operations team, and the role Grafana played in monitoring spacecraft systems from low Earth orbit all the way to the moon’s surface. 

Learn how the team rapidly built reliable dashboards to track key telemetry in real time to help bring Firefly’s lunar ambitions to life.

Monitoring EA App’s 200+ core error metrics with a scalable, color-coded Grafana dashboard

With a complex client that has many dependencies and operates across diverse environments, the Electronic Arts (EA) team needed a modern error monitoring system to answer critical questions about the EA App: 

• Is the app healthy?
• Which part of which build is facing issues?
• Is this problem external?

The solution: a Grafana dashboard that client teams can use to answer these questions for 200+ core error metrics in under 10 minutes with confidence. In this session, Software Engineer Kenny Chen walks through the Grafana dashboard’s structured and scalable pattern of color-coded rows that enable quick visual assessment and reduce cognitive load. Kenny explains how the team creates accurate thresholds for anomaly detection, and automated updates and alerts using templating—ensuring that 800+ panels and 200+ alerts are always up-to-date with minimal manual intervention, providing reliable, real-time monitoring.

Loki at Dropbox: Strategies for reliable petabyte-scale logging

How do you manage logging at petabyte scale? In this session, Infrastructure Software Engineer Chris Hodges shares hard-won lessons from scaling Grafana Loki to manage multi-petabyte unstructured logs for 1,000+ services at Dropbox. Learn how his team evolved a single distributed Loki cluster into a reliable petabyte-scale logging platform while balancing developer needs and operational realities. 

Chris shares strategies to operationalize Loki at enterprise scale, including multi-tenancy guardrails, label cardinality containment, runtime kill switches, limit configuration, and multihoming.

You can check out all of these on-demand sessions and more on the GrafanaCON 2025 website. And if you want to explore other upcoming events—both in-person and virtual—check out the Grafana Labs events page.