Name: GrafanaCON Recap Barcelona
Start: 2025-06-04T16:30:00.000Z
Location: SCRM - Lidl International Hub

We're thrilled to invite you to our next 🌸 Grafana & Friends Amsterdam Meetup 🌸

Many thanks to our good friends at [HCS Company](https://www.hcs-company.com/), who have kindly offered to host us at their Amsterdam office and share their experience 🫶

📕 **Agenda**

**17:30** Open doors.
**18:00** Food & Drinks
**18:30** Meetup starts: talk & workshop

🗣️ **Talk**
**Monitoring and Managing Edge Devices at Scale with Grafana: The ProRail Approach - [Ho Yeung](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cshy/)**

This talk presents how ProRail has implemented a scalable and efficient monitoring solution for its IOT2050 edge devices using Grafana and containerized services. Attendees will learn how system metrics, Docker container statuses, and MQTT data are collected from edge devices and visualized in real-time dashboards, enabling both operational oversight and historical analysis. The session covers the integration of tools such as Grafana Agent, Alloy, Node Exporter, Mosquitto, and Node-RED—deployed through Portainer—to build a resilient monitoring infrastructure. We’ll also showcase interactive Grafana dashboards, including a nationwide map of edge devices, and explain how alerting mechanisms help detect issues early and reduce downtime. This session is ideal for observability engineers, systems specialists, and anyone interested in edge monitoring and infrastructure visibility at scale.

**🎙️ Ho Yeung** is currently working at ProRail, focusing on the development of an observability platform designed to streamline the collection and processing of measurement data. His work involves integrating diverse measurement devices into a system, automating data validation processes, and leading the visualization of data using Grafana. He collaborates with end-users and technical teams to ensure effective data presentation and decision-making, configuring Grafana in a Kubernetes environment.

🛠️ **Workshop**
**Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Mayhem: An Interactive Observability Adventure** - **[Imma Valls](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imma-valls/)**

This is a hands-on introductory session on observability. Through an engaging text-based adventure, you'll learn to diagnose and resolve issues in your systems. This workshop covers essential observability tools —metrics, logs, and traces — and shows how to leverage them effectively for real-world troubleshooting and insights in your application.
Bring your laptop for this session. Docker and git or a browser to run this on a killercoda playground are prerequisites. You can also work in pairs.

**🎙️ Imma Valls** is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs. Imma enjoys automating stuff, and anything that helps get apps from development to production. She also loves sharing with local communities and helping them connect and thrive. She co-organizes Grafana’s meetups in Barcelona and Madrid, Cloud Native Barcelona meetups, and Software Crafters Barcelona. She also volunteers as a coach and board member at the TechFems Barcelona community and collaborates with Technovation Girls as a Judge.

🏢 **Location**
**HCS Company**: Anthony Fokkerweg 61\, Amsterdam \| https://maps\.app\.goo\.gl/LPMZKBzB7MutGrZb6\.
The HCS Company office is easily accessible by both car and public transport. You can park your car on their premises; ample parking is beyond the barrier. If you come by public transport, you can get off at the Henk Sneevlietweg metro station; from there, it is a 10-minute walk.

We are looking forward to seeing you 🎉!

Grafana & Friends Amsterdam

Alexandra Vargas

Benoit Schipper

Imma Valls

Marcel Kerker

Ho-Yeung

Arash Haghighat

Pouya Dolatabadi

Valery Bitsoev

Behrad Eslamifar

Luca

Georgiy Mogelashvili

Ruslan Kuleshov

Sahand Abbasi

Alex Oanca

ehsan khodadadi

Maksim Shevchenko

Vitaly

Rajesh Gunasekaran

Nikolay

Andrei Margaev

Grafana & Friends Amsterdam @ HCS Company

HCS Company

Join us for an observability-focused meetup in NYC! This event is an opportunity to join the folks from Grafana and Embrace for an evening of talks about OpenTelemetry 🔭

📋 Agenda

🎉 6:00 Introductions & food
Kick off the evening drinks and food 🌮

🎙️ 6:30 Talks from Mark Covello (Grafana Labs) and David Rifkin (Embrace)

**OTel me more! A practical guide for adopting OpenTelemetry**

💬 7:30 Networking and Q&As

🔚 8:00 The End

The event is well-suited for DevOps and Site-Reliability engineers, and we welcome those who are new to Grafana, OpenTelemetry or observability. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Grafana & Friends NYC

Grafana Community

Osaid Khan

floriatsui

Mark Bauer

Mehboob Alam*

Nera

Rick

John Wroge

Sudhanshu Pandey

Yevhenii Padafa

Ashok

Dan Shoop

Nitya Yerramallu

Maxim Rybalov

Igor Goldberg

Tara

Delphine Tinkham

Dave Aronowitz

Rodolfo Nunez

Grafana NYC/Embrace: OTel me more! A practical guide for adopting OpenTelemetry

The Farm Soho

Join us for a lightning Kafka and observability-focused Meetup hosted at Thinkport GmbH! This event is a unique opportunity to gain insights into Grafana and Kafka stacks.
Enjoy a chance to network with fellow enthusiasts and have some delicious pizza!
**📋 Agenda**
**🎉 18:00 Introductions & snacking time**
Kick off the evening with a warm welcome, and some 🍺 cold drinks!

**🎙️ 18:30 Talk:**
**💣 3 data source plugins to add to your stack after this talk**

* ***Description:*** Grafana is not just about visualizing metrics, logs, and traces. It’s about bringing your data – wherever it lives, whatever it is – into one spot. Imagine bringing together data about deployments, cloud costs, and web accessibility! In this lightning talk, Grafana Labs Developer Advocate Usman Ahmad will share three open source data source plugins from the Grafana catalog and demonstrate how you can use them to enrich your existing dashboards.
* ***Speakers:*** [Syed Usman Ahmad,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux/) Staff Developer Advocate @ Grafana Labs
Usman is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack. As a DevRel he contributes to Documentation, creating video tutorials, blog posts to help Grafana Labs in its product growth and also improve the user experience.

**🎙️ 19:00 Talk:**
**💣** **Real-Time Kafka Visualisation in Grafana**

* ***Description:*** In this talk, we’ll introduce [the Kafka Data Source plugin ](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/hamedkarbasi93-kafka-datasource/)we developed for Grafana, which enables users to query and visualise Kafka topic data directly in their dashboards—without the need for intermediate storage or external services. We'll share how the idea came about, how we collaborated with the Grafana community and developers to bring it to life, and the challenges we faced along the way. We'll also discuss our vision for the plugin’s future and its role in the evolving observability landscape.
* ***Speakers:*** [Hamed Karbasi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamed-karbasi/), Senior Data Engineer @ [0+X](https://0x.se/)
Hamed is a data engineer at 0+X, focused on large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines. Most recently at Snapp!, he scaled the event-driven infrastructure, redesigned the data warehouse, and optimized pipelines for greater availability and scalability. A passionate open-source contributor, he actively works on Grafana and Kubernetes on [GitHub](https://github.com/hoptical), and shares insights via [Medium](https://medium.com/@hoptical) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@hoptical).

**🍕 19:30 Pizza and Networking**
**🎙️ 20:15 Talk:**
**💣** **TBA**

* ***Description:*** TBA
* ***Speakers:*** Teodora Farcas, Solutions Engineering Consultant, Confluent

**💬 20:45 Networking and Q&As**
**🔚 21:30 The End**
The event is well-suited for Software engineers, and we welcome people who are new to Kafka, Grafana or observability. We look forward to seeing you all there!

#Grafana #Observability #Loki #IncidentManagement #DevOps #SRE

Grafana and Friends Frankfurt

Mehrshad Lotfi

Xyz00777

Vladimir Vladimirov

Junaid A

Sascha

Reyhaneh Kordi

Sara

Sergejs Janulonoks

Kamal Galrani

derjohn

Björn T.

Shubham Sharma

hamed.karbasi.93

hamed.ghahremani88

Albert

Neel

Saravanakumar Gopalakrishnan

Four data source plugins to add to your stack

Thinkport GmbH

We’re excited to host a Grafana Meetup in Austin featuring **Jen Villa** from Grafana Labs!

Jen will be presenting *“A Tale of Two Flamegraphs: Unlocking Performance Insights in a Diverse Application Landscape,”* a talk that explores how flamegraphs can unlock performance insights across diverse application ecosystems.

We’ll dive into the world of performance profiling, exploring the challenges and opportunities related to optimizing applications across diverse programming languages and platforms. We will also discover the power of flamegraphs in enhancing application performance analysis. This talk draws upon our experiences integrating profiling into OpenTelemetry, highlighting the importance of observability in modern software development. Using real-world examples and the official OpenTelemetry demo application, Jen will present “Tales of Two Flamegraphs,” revealing performance pitfalls and effective optimization methods across different language ecosystems.

Grafana & Friends Austin

Matthew Fine

Eamon

Radu Almășan

david.plunkett

Noryev

Stephen Hahn

Eugene Potapov

jeff slocum

Chris Carter

rahulkandru

Abhi

Alvaro Beltran

Raja pachamuthu

Isaac De la Cruz

karthick krishnamurthy

Jeff

Noel

momoworkemail95

Nilanjan Chatterjee

Grafana Austin: A Tale of Two Flamegraphs

Silicon Labs

Este meetup es la edición local de [GrafanaCON 2025](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/) en Barcelona 🎉

Te esperamos en [SCRM - Lidl International Hub](https://scrm.lidl/) para conocer algunas de las últimas novedades en el ecosistema de Grafana que se han desvelado en [GrafanaCON 2025](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/), y para conectar con la comunidad local.

📍**Ubicación:**
c/ Bergara 13\, Barcelona \| [https://maps.app.goo.gl/zd6h3BGzHNxgAgjT6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/zd6h3BGzHNxgAgjT6)

**📅 Agenda:**

**18:30:** Bienvenida 👋
**18:45:** 🎙️ "**Recapitulando la Keynote de GrafanaCON 2025**", [Imma Valls](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imma-valls/) \- Staff Developer Advocate en Grafana Labs
Se presentarán los puntos clave y anuncios más relevantes de la keynote de GrafanaCON 2025.
**19:15:** 🎙️ **“k6 1.0: Cómo esta esperada versión major facilita la introducción al testing”** by [Joan López de la Franca](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanlopez1/) \- Senior Software Engineer en Grafana Labs
¡Probando, probando, 1, 2, … 1.0! Grafana k6 v1.0 ya está aquí. La herramienta de pruebas de carga de código abierto, fácil de usar para desarrollador@s, ha alcanzado este importante hito con las funciones principales estabilizadas y un nuevo flujo de trabajo que facilita su arranque. En esta sesión mostraremos características como la extensibilidad nativa (sin más soluciones alternativas a xk6); el conversor OpenAPI para optimizar y automatizar la creación de pruebas basadas en TypeScript; y k6 Studio, una aplicación de escritorio que simplifica las pruebas de rendimiento. Tanto si desarrolas backend, eres QA o profesional de DevOps, esta sesión te proporcionará los conocimientos necesarios para empezar rápidamente con k6 y sacarle el máximo provecho.
**20:00 - 21:00:** Networking con pizzas y bebidas 🍻🍕

¡Nos vemos allí! 👋

Grafana & Friends Barcelona.

Grafana & Friends Barcelona

Almudena Vivanco

Albert Domenech Olivera

David F.

Emilio Gerdez

Marie C.

jose romero garcia

Adrián Pastén

Eligio Alejandro Mariño Garcés

Rafael Bressan

Jordi Guix

jesus

Sonia Aguilar

Alberto

Joan López de la Franca

Latika Gupta

GrafanaCON Recap Barcelona

SCRM - Lidl International Hub

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