Grafana Labs at tech events
12 write-ups · 5 events · 2024–2026
Every event write-up on this site where Grafana Labs spoke, hosted, sponsored or was interviewed, newest first. Each post covers what was presented, in my own words, with photos of the slides.
2026
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Grafana Labs OTel Amsterdam: Community, Networking, and the People Behind the CodeBeyond the slides: the community connections at the Grafana Labs OpenTelemetry event in Amsterdam — group photos, coffee breaks, and conversations that matter.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale: Grafana Labs Amsterdam RecapGrafana Labs OpenTelemetry Amsterdam recap: Ted Young on rollouts, Austin Parker on Observability IRL, Hierarchy of Observability.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Ted and Ed's Hierarchy of Observability NeedsMaslow's Hierarchy for observability: infrastructure visibility at the base, custom logic at the top. Build observability maturity layer by layer.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Maintaining Everything Forever: The Hidden Cost of Observability at ScaleBeyond deployment, the hidden cost of observability: complexity at scale, tracking debt, and costs that grow faster than you can control.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Observability IRL: What Fire Lookout Towers Teach Us About Software MonitoringAustin Parker's 'Observability IRL' talk at Grafana Labs draws a direct parallel between 1930s fire lookout towers and modern software observability.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Scaling OpenTelemetry with Ted Young (Grafana Labs)Ted Young, OpenTelemetry co-founder, on the four focus areas that will define OTel's future: clients, stability, AI, and edge.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Installing Everything by Hand Sucks: The Automation Imperative for OpenTelemetryThe pain of manual OpenTelemetry setup and why a one-click deployment experience is the key to adoption at scale.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Why I Am Dusty: Burning Man, Art Installations, and ObservabilityTed Young's 'Why I am dusty' talk: linking a 30-foot Burning Man art tower to building observable software systems.
27 May 2026 · AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 · Amsterdam
AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026: AI for Real-World ImpactAttending AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 — from Martin Elwin's keynote on choosing the right tools to Ecolafaek's AI-powered waste management in Timor-Leste.
2025
24 Sept 2025 · Grafana & Friends Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Grafana & Friends Amsterdam 2025: Kafka in GrafanaGrafana & Friends Amsterdam, 24 September 2025: community plugins, plugin signature levels and a live demo of the Kafka data source plugin in Grafana Explore.
23 Sept 2025 · EDGECASE 2025: The Multiverse Saga · Amersfoort
EDGECASE 2025 Amersfoort: Talk, Booths and InterviewsEDGECASE 2025 in Amersfoort: Justin Garrison's Disney+ story and booth interviews with Chainguard, Dell, Veeam, Sysdig, Sidero, HCS and TrueFullstaq.
2024
3 Jul 2024 · Grafana & Friends Amsterdam Summer Meetup · Amsterdam
Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry and Backstage: Meetup 2024Notes from Grafana & Friends Amsterdam on 3 July 2024: a Tempo and OpenTelemetry migration tracked with Backstage, plus Grafana's move to Scenes.