ObservabilityCON on the Road is coming to the Bay Area
February 25, 2025
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Featured sessions led by observability experts
Aurora’s observability evolution: From complexity to clarity with Grafana Cloud
Learn how Aurora, a leader in autonomous driving technology, steered toward less complexity and lower costs by migrating to Grafana Cloud.
AI/ML in Grafana Cloud: Saving toil, time, and money
See demos of how AI features can help you reduce toil, get faster insights, optimize costs – and give your engineers observability superpowers.
Agenda
- 8:00 a.m.
Registration + Expo
Enjoy a light breakfast while networking with attendees and exploring Grafana demos in the Expo hall. - 9:00 a.m.
ObservabilityCON on the Road Keynote
Join Grafana Labs Senior Director of Engineering Marc Chipouras and VP of Engineering Manoj Acharya for the kickoff of ObservabilityCON on the Road Bay Area. Learn about the latest features and AI/ML developments in the Grafana LGTM Stack and Grafana Cloud that make it easier and faster for you to identify and resolve issues and get value from your observability practice.
- Marc Chipouras, Senior Director of Engineering, Grafana Labs
- Manoj Acharya, VP, Engineering, Grafana Labs
- 9:45 a.m.
Instrumentation and ingestion in an instant: Demo of Grafana Alloy, Grafana Beyla, and OpenTelemetry
Grafana Alloy, our open source telemetry collector, uniquely provides native pipelines for both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus formats. With Alloy’s integration with Grafana Beyla for eBPF-based application auto-instrumentation, you can automatically capture metrics and traces of running services and connect them to your existing telemetry pipelines. Alloy also has an experimental feature for translating Datadog metric formats into native OTLP format. In this session, you’ll see a live demo of how, with a single deployment, you can instantly get your data into Grafana Cloud for unified application and infrastructure observability.
- Robbie Lankford, Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- 10:15 a.m.
Troubleshoot faster with unified application and infrastructure observability in Grafana Cloud
At ObservabilityCON 2023, we announced the acquisition of Asserts, which provides an intelligence layer to telemetry data to help you understand the behavior of your applications and services. In this session, you’ll see a live demo of how these contextual alerts have been integrated into Grafana Cloud’s workflows for application, Kubernetes, and infrastructure observability – and more – to speed up root cause analysis.
- Jia Xu, Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Alex Ramos, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- 10:45 a.m.
Morning Break
- 11:15 a.m.
Aurora’s observability evolution: From complexity to clarity with Grafana Cloud
Aurora, a leader in autonomous driving technology, is on a mission to revolutionize freight and passenger transportation. However, the team hit significant roadblocks with a multi-tool observability stack that resulted in higher costs, productivity-reducing complexity, and sluggish root cause analysis. Join Craig Sebenik, Lead for Observability at Aurora, as he walks through the company’s journey to Grafana Cloud to power its modern observability practice. See how the new platform provides end-to-end monitoring for centralized metrics, logs, and traces, all while providing the business with more clarity, less complexity, and lower costs.
- Craig Sebenik, Staff SRE, Aurora
- 11:45 a.m.
AI/ML in Grafana Cloud: Saving toil, time, and money
Under the hood of features like Sift, Asserts, and Adaptive Metrics, AI/ML is helping organizations reduce toil, get faster insights, optimize observability costs – and level up the productivity of their engineers. In this session, you’ll see demos of these Grafana Cloud features and hear real-world examples of the value achieved with them. Plus find out what’s next for the Adaptive Telemetry cost management suite: Adaptive Logs and beyond.
- Travis Patterson, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Chris Marchbanks, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- 12:15 p.m.
Lunch
- 12:55 p.m.
Building a generative AI assistant for Grafana Cloud: Harnessing the power of Amazon Bedrock
This talk is ideal for cloud architects, DevOps engineers, and AI enthusiasts looking to harness the power of generative AI for enhanced system observability. Attendees will gain valuable insights into building, deploying, and maintaining advanced AI assistants in AWS Cloud, with a specific focus on integration with Grafana Cloud.
This session is presented by platinum event sponsor AWS.
- Anuj Sharma, Principal Solutions Architect , AWS
- 1:15 p.m.
A user's guide to Grafana Cloud's end-to-end IRM solution
Grafana Cloud’s Incident Response and Management solution provides workflows that span creating alerts and SLOs, managing on-call and incident response, and learning from postmortems – all within the context of your observability stack. In this session, you’ll learn best practices for making the most of this IRM solution, including leveraging the historical incident data that’s accessible within Grafana Cloud.
- Sarah Kaplan, Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs
- Devin Cheevers, Director of Product, Grafana Labs
- 1:45 p.m.
How standardized tagging in Grafana Cloud transformed SpotOn’s observability approach
Migrating to a new observability platform often presents both technical challenges and opportunities to rethink foundational practices. At SpotOn, provider of restaurant point of sales systems and business software, the decision to establish a robust tagging taxonomy during a migration ended up revolutionizing the company’s observability approach. Join SpotOn’s VP of Engineering Jeremy White and Engineering Manager Sai Soundarajan as they share how standardizing tagging across infrastructure, Kubernetes, and applications has become the backbone of their observability transformation, enabling domain-based alerting, streamlined incident management, and cost observability. Learn how SpotOn leveraged Grafana Cloud to accelerate OpenTelemetry adoption, enforce consistent telemetry standards with custom SDKs, and enable powerful features such as RED metrics, IRM workflows, and application and frontend observability.
- Jeremy White, VP of Engineering, SpotOn
- Sai Soundararajan, Engineering Manager, SpotOn
- 2:15 p.m.
Best practices for faster insights from your metrics, logs, traces, and profiles
Learn about the latest features and functionality in Grafana Labs’ horizontally scalable, highly performant open source telemetry backends (Grafana Mimir for Prometheus metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, Grafana Tempo for traces, and Grafana Pyroscope for profiles). In this session, you’ll learn best practices for correlating your different telemetry data in Grafana to simplify debugging, speed up incident resolution, and understand resource usage and latency down to the code level. You’ll also see a demo of the new Explore features that remove the barrier of learning query languages like PromQL and LogQL. Members of the Uber engineering team will share how they’ve leveraged Grafana Cloud Profiles to proactively reduce costs, minimize latency at scale, and speed up incident resolution across the organization.
- Dmitry Filimonov, Principal Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Catherine Gui, Senior Product Designer, Grafana Labs
- Shauvik Roy Choudhary, Engineering Manager, Uber
- Milind Chabbi, Senior Staff Researcher, Uber
- 3:00 p.m.
How to use synthetics, load testing, and real user monitoring to understand your end users' experience
Synthetic monitoring, which enables you to simulate and analyze user journeys, is a common starting point for understanding and improving your end users’ digital experience. In this session, you’ll find out about the latest developments in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, powered by Grafana k6, that help you simulate even the most complex transactions and user journeys. You’ll also learn how synthetics can be used in conjunction with load testing and real user monitoring in Grafana Cloud for a more holistic approach to user-centered observability.
- Elliot Kirk, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
- 3:30 p.m.
Reception + Expo
Join us for a hosted reception while networking with attendees and meeting Grafana experts in the Expo hall.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is there a code of conduct for the event?
- Yes. By registering, all attendees at any event hosted by Grafana Labs are required to comply with the event code of conduct and event terms and conditions.
- What is the refund policy? If I cannot attend, can I transfer my ticket?
- Tickets are nonrefundable, but you can request to transfer your ticket to someone else by emailing events@grafana.com.
- Are there sponsorship opportunities available for this event?
- There are a limited number of sponsorship opportunities available for these events. Please contact sponsors@grafana.com for more details.
- How can I register?
- You can register by purchasing a ticket on our website. Once payment has been processed, you will receive a confirmation email with your ticket.
- Do I need to print my tickets?
- You are not required to print your ticket; you can simply show one of our team members your ticket directly from your tablet or mobile phone upon arrival at the check-in desk. A valid photo ID is also an acceptable form of proof of registration.
- What time should I arrive?
- Registration will open at 8:00 a.m. Please check in at the registration desk and collect your name badge. If you arrive before registration is open, please wait at the entrance hall of the venue until a member of the staff lets you in.
- Can I purchase a ticket at the venue?
- We kindly ask participants to purchase tickets ahead of the event via our website. Tickets will not be available to be purchased on-site.
- May guests attend the event?
- The event is limited to attendees who have purchased a valid ticket.
- Are food and drinks included with my registration?
- The event will provide a light breakfast, buffet lunch, and a hosted evening reception. Snacks and beverages will be available throughout the duration of the event. If you are attending the event and have severe food allergies, please email us at events@grafana.com.
- Is parking available onsite?
- Complimentary parking is available onsite at the hotel. The hotel is located off Highway 101 at 200 Independence Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025
- Is public transportation available nearby?
- Hotel Nia is a 10 - 15 minute drive away from the following Caltrain stops: Menlo Park, Atherton, and Stanford
- What is the dress code for the event?
- Business casual.
- What should I bring to the event?
- Come prepared with questions you would like to ask our experts. You can bring your laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. Wi-Fi will be made available throughout the conference rooms.
- Will you have a coat check for the event?
- No coat check will be available
- What if I need special access requirements?
- If you have any special access requirements, please email us at events@grafana.com upon registration, and we can make necessary arrangements to enable your attendance.
- Will content be available on demand?
- Content from select ObservabilityCON on the Road cities may be available on demand at a future date. We highly encourage you to attend the event in person to get the most out of the sessions.
- I have additional questions. Who can I contact?
- Please direct any additional questions to events@grafana.com
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