That's a wrap on GrafanaCON 2025!
Sign up to get notified about future events and product updates.
On-demand sessions
9:00 AM
60 mins
Main Stage
Opening keynote
Join co-chairs Carl Bergquist, Mihaela Maior, and Richard “RichiH” Hartmann for the official kickoff to GrafanaCON 2025! Members of our engineering team will make some exciting announcements around our open source projects and unveil what’s new in Grafana 12.
- Carl Bergquist
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Mihaela Maior
Director of Engineering
Grafana Labs
- Richard "RichiH" Hartmann
Office of the CTO
Grafana Labs
- Raj Dutt
CEO, Co-Founder
Grafana Labs
- Torkel Ödegaard
CGO, Co-Founder
Grafana Labs
- Ryan McKinley
Distinguished Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Mat Ryer
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- David Kaltschmidt
Senior Director, Engineering
Grafana Labs
- Ted Young
Developer Programs Director
Grafana Labs
- Andrew Stucky
Senior Engineering Manager
Grafana Labs
- Cyril Tovena
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 10:00 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
You can do what with Grafana? Highlights from our Grafana Labs hackathons
Join us for a showcase of some of the most whimsical projects that have come out of our hackathons, including Doomfana, Super Grot, and more!
- Bogdan Matei
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Domas Lapinskas
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Ivana Huckova
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Sven Großmann
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Gianni Baiardi
Staff Product Designer
Grafana Labs
- 11:00 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Dashboards to the moon: Grafana’s role in Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission operations
Join Jesus Charles, Blue Ghost Mission 1 Flight Director, for an inside look at Firefly's recent lunar 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.
- Jesus Charles
Blue Ghost Mission 1 Flight Director
Firefly Aerospace
- 11:30 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Loki at Dropbox: Strategies for reliable petabyte-scale logging
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.
- Chris Hodges
Infrastructure Software Engineer
Dropbox
- 12:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
7 features to get more out of Loki with Logs Drilldown in Grafana
This session will show you how to get the most out of Loki with Logs Drilldown, the queryless, point-and-click experience in Grafana that allows you to quickly find insights in your observability data — no queries or complicated syntax required.
- Trevor Whitney
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Matias Wenceslao Chomicki
Staff Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 1:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
From Raspberry Pi to apple pie: Monitoring an off-grid family orchard
Learn how Arthur Kepler's work as a site reliability engineer helped him build a remotely managed monitoring system for an orchard using solar power, remote networking, MQTT, InfluxDB, and Grafana.
- Arthur Kepler
Principal DevOps Engineer
Thrackle
- 2:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Prometheus 3.0: Everything you need to know
3.0 is the first major version of Prometheus in seven years — and we're celebrating the milestone. With a brand-new user interface, and offering new features such as UTF-8 character support, this release also enabled many small improvements that were previously behind feature flags.
- Carrie Edwards
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Goutham Veeramachaneni
Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- 2:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Mimir 3.0 preview: Major improvements to stability, performance, cost, and scalability
In this session, Mimir team members will preview the new features in the upcoming Grafana Mimir 3.0 major release.
- David Grant
Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Jonathan Halterman
Principal Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 3:00 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Easier and faster exploration of complex metrics with Metrics Drilldown in Grafana
See a demo of the power of Metrics Drilldown, including its novel approach to metrics exploration, integrating OpenTelemetry resource attributes with Prometheus labels.
- Brendan O'Handley
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 3:10 PM
- 20 mins
- Main Stage
Golden Grot Awards ceremony
And the Golden Grot goes to…. Find out the winners of our annual Golden Grot Awards, which highlight the amazing Grafana dashboards our community creates.
- 4:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
How Grafana helps passenger satisfaction take flight at Schiphol Airport
DevOps engineer Gerard van Engelen will share how PXP leverages Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Alloy, and Faro to enable real-time, data-driven insights into system performance and user interactions. These insights support passenger satisfaction, streamline operations, and reveal new commercial opportunities for one of the busiest airports in the world.
- Gerard van Engelen
Platform Engineer
Codepeople
- 4:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Easy homelab observability with Grafana Beyla, powered by eBPF and OpenTelemetry
Learn how to deploy Beyla with Prometheus and leverage the power of OpenTelemetry’s semantic conventions to observe your services with ease, in your home lab or in production.
- Nikola Grcevski
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Goutham Veeramachaneni
Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- 5:00 PM
- 15 mins
- Main Stage
Circumnavigation or bust: The OSS data stack powering a droneship’s journey around the world
Embark on an extraordinary journey with Project Bob, spacecraft engineer Andrew McCalip's plan to send a 14-foot drone boat on a record-breaking 25,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, leveraging Grafana and Tailscale to achieve seamless connectivity and real-time data monitoring.
- Andrew McCalip
Head of Research And Development
Varda Space Industries
- 9:00 AM
- 90 mins
- Main Stage
Grafana 12 deep dive
Check out the latest major release of your favorite dashboarding tool! The engineers behind the new features and functionality for Grafana will lead a deep dive session on what's new: from dashboards as code, config in git, and dynamic dashboards to updates to alerting, the app platform, and beyond.
- Mitch Seaman
Senior Director of Product
Grafana Labs
- Mihaela Maior
Director of Engineering
Grafana Labs
- Stephanie Hingtgen
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Jean-Philippe Quéméner
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Ryan McKinley
Distinguished Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Bogdan Matei
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Dominik Prokop
Principal Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Thanos Karachalios
Group Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- 11:00 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
k6 1.0: How this long-awaited major release makes it easier to get started with testing
Grafana k6 v1.0 is here! k6 contributors will demonstrate features in the open source load testing tool, 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.
- Théo Crevon
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Ayush Goyal
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 11:30 AM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Grafana Alloy: combining the OpenTelemetry Collector with a high-performance Prometheus pipeline
Grafana Labs' Ted Young and 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.
- Johanna Öjeling
Senior Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- Ted Young
Developer Programs Director
Grafana Labs
- 12:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Without a trace (query): Troubleshooting simplified with Tempo and Traces Drilldown in Grafana
See how Traces Drilldown in Grafana, powered by Grafana Tempo, can simplify complex troubleshooting, helping you quickly detect latency issues, identify error trends, and spot anomalies – all without having to learn yet another query language.
- Andrew Stucky
Senior Engineering Manager
Grafana Labs
- Alex Simion
Senior Software Engineer
Glovo
- Deepika Muthudeenathayalan
Staff Software Engineer
Glovo
- 1:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Agent-driven Grafana: Going beyond AI chat interactions
Learn how LLMs can evolve from simple chat interfaces to become active participants in the Grafana ecosystem with new agentic workflows.
- Yasir Ekinci
Principal Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 2:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Deep dive into the InfluxDB 3 Core open source release
InfluxDB 3 Core is the new open source release of InfluxDB 3, a time series and analytic event database built with Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet. InfluxDB creator Paul Dix will cover InfluxDB Core's diskless design, which allows it to operate solely with object storage (in addition to a regular local disk).
- Paul Dix
Cofounder and CTO
InfluxData
- 2:30 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Why you should care about continuous profiling and how to get started with Profiles Drilldown in Grafana
Pyroscope co-founder Ryan Perry will highlight real-world examples of how continuous profiling has transformed performance engineering at Grafana Labs and beyond, and show you how to get started with the query-less Profiles Drilldown app in Grafana.
- Ryan Perry
Principal Product Manager
Grafana Labs
- 3:00 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
K8s Dungeon Crawl: When observability meets adventure
Step into the K8s Dungeon Crawl, where Grafana isn't just for dashboards. In this lightning talk, Kim Schaefer will guide you through a modified version of the classic open source dungeon crawler Brogue. But in K8s Dungeon Crawl, in-game monsters are mirrored as Kubernetes deployments.
- Kim Schaefer Cloud Native Enthusiast
- 3:10 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
My laundry dashboard and other absurdly unconventional use cases for Grafana
How much time is left on my laundry load? A million rows of metrics in TimescaleDB later, Dakota Roth had a real-time Grafana dashboard monitoring how busy the laundry room was, which machines were used the most – and yes, when his load of laundry would be done.
- Dakota Roth Student
- 3:20 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Hungry for data: Monitoring carnivorous plants with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki
In this lightning talk, Jay Clifford, a developer advocate at Grafana Labs, shares his journey of applying observability practices to maintain a small carnivorous plant tank, turning his love for these fascinating plants into a data-driven passion project.
- Jay Clifford
Senior Developer Advocate
Grafana Labs
- 4:00 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Monitoring EA App’s 200+ core error metrics with a scalable, color-coded Grafana dashboard
In this session, EA Software Engineer Kenny Chen walks through how his team built a Grafana dashboard that client teams can use to monitor 200+ core error metrics.
- Kenny Chen
Software Developer II
Electronic Arts
- 4:30 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Bringing situational awareness to observability with Grafana and Prometheus
Orange Barrel Media Engineering Manager Christoph Roedig will explore how to make observability tools more helpful in real-world scenarios, such as monitoring a large network of touchscreen multimedia kiosks across the U.S.
- Christoph Roedig
Manager, Production Systems
Orange Barrel Media
- 4:40 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Radio Grafana: Mapping planes and ships using data from radio receivers
Learn how data gathered from radio receivers fetching locations of planes, ships, and Meshtastic devices can be used to create reception overviews using Grafana, Prometheus, a bit of custom code, and a home server.
- Mateusz Kulewicz
Software Engineer
Canonical
- 4:50 PM
- 30 mins
- Main Stage
Air-gapped observability at the edge: Monitoring distributed infrastructures with Grafana
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Ruslan Dautov explores how ZEDEDA integrates Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus to deliver real-time observability for large-scale distributed, air-gapped, and intermittently connected edge infrastructures. You'll see how industries like manufacturing and energy leverage Grafana to monitor edge infrastructure under strict network constraints.
- Ruslan Dautov
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
ZEDEDA
- 5:20 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
3 data source plugins to add to your stack after this talk
Learn about three data source plugins that can enrich your existing dashboards in new ways.
- Sarah Zinger
Staff Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
- 5:30 PM
- 10 mins
- Main Stage
Advancing security and innovation: Microsoft’s open source contributions to Grafana
Microsoft Software Engineer John Naizer will walk through his team's migration to Grafana for executive dashboards to track metrics, manage incidents, maintain service quality, and more. The team also built a new authentication system that offered greater security than the existing native Azure authentication in Grafana and contributed the feature to Grafana OSS
- John Naizer
Software Engineer
Microsoft
- 5:40 PM
- 15 mins
- Main Stage
Closing talk
That's a wrap on GrafanaCON 2025!
- Tom Wilkie
Chief Technology Officer
Grafana Labs
What’s happening at GrafanaCON 2025
News
Hear about the latest Grafana features and visualizations and other developments in the extended open source monitoring ecosystem.
Community
Get inspired by community members who are dashboarding everything and using Grafana in cool and surprising ways.
Education
Learn from 20+ talks, deep dives, and hands-on sessions covering Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and more.
Hallway track
Meet your Community Forum friends and LinkedIn connections in person. Share ideas, tips and tricks, and your favorite dashboards!
When
May 6-8, 2025
Where
McCaw Hall at Seattle Center
321 Mercer Street
Seattle, WA 98109
Hands-on labs
Get firsthand experience in building dashboards, data sources, new telemetry pipelines, and more. Grafana Labs experts will lead hands-on labs in a variety of topics and teach you tips and tricks to improve your skills.
Learn more about the labs
Golden Grot Awards
Each year, we recognize our open source community and the amazing Grafana dashboards that they create with the annual Golden Grot Awards.
Find out more about how to enter, how to vote, and the Golden Grot Award winners.
Learn about the Golden GrotsGrafanaCON Local
Couldn’t make it to Seattle? Lucky for you, we’re taking our biggest community event on a world tour. GrafanaCON Local will be a half-day event hosted in Singapore, Berlin, Toronto, and Bangalore.
Learn more about GrafanaCON Local
Who’s ready for GrafanaCON 2026?
Sign up to learn more about next year’s conference and other related events.
Thank you to our sponsors
Pioneer
Guru
Champion
Community Star
Sponsor a Grafana Labs event
Interested in sponsorship opportunities at Grafana Labs events? Email
sponsors@grafana.com to learn more.
No need to wait to meet and mingle
Stop by and say hi in the #grafanacon channel in Grafana Labs’ Community Slack.
Join the conversation ➞
Best of GrafanaCON 2024
Check out highlights from last year's event.