About us
This Grafana & Friends meetup group hosts events focused on open source monitoring and observability using Grafana and related technologies. Some meetups feature formal presentations, while others are more relaxed and discussion-driven. Every event is designed to encourage learning, connection, and community. Snacks and stickers included!
🎤 Interested in speaking?
We’re always looking for meetup speakers! Submit your talk ideas here, and we’ll reach out with next steps if your proposal is accepted.
Grafana & Friends meetups aren’t the only way to connect with the community! Explore additional ways to get involved below:
Interact and be heard:
- Forums: Do you have a problem, question, or curiosity? Visit our forums for a reservoir of knowledge- submit your own questions and answers!
- Community Slack: Eager for real-time connections with fellow users? Begin a conversation on Slack.
Learn:
- YouTube: From getting started to exploring newer projects like Pyroscope and Beyla, the Grafana YouTube channel has what you need to get started!
Contribute:
- Github: Check out our open github repositories to report bugs and contribute code
- Meetups and blogs: We’d love to feature your OSS Grafana Labs use case or story at an upcoming Grafana & Friends meetup or on the Grafana blog! Submit your idea here and we’ll connect with you on next steps if accepted.
- Champions: Join the Grafana Champions program! It’s designed to recognize and empower individuals who are actively contributing to the growth and success of the Grafana ecosystem.
All events hosted by this group and communication on this platform are subject to Grafana Labs' Events Code of Conduct.
Upcoming events
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GrafanaCON Local Meetup: Bengaluru
Bureauid India Private Limited, 3rd & 4th floor, 397, 1st Cross Rd, 4th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560034, Bengaluru, INA taste of GrafanaCON is coming to you!
Join your local observability community for an evening of open source inspiration, real-world stories, and meaningful connections - all in a laid-back, meetup-style setting.
This event will feature a recap of GrafanaCON 2026 and Suraj's top 10 features and major announcements.
Grafana team members will walk through Grafana 13 and the most impactful improvements across the platform.
Learn about how Grafana is becoming easier and safer to operate as production infrastructure, with updates that improve configuration management, recovery, and long-term maintainability.
The session showcases significant advances in core user workflows, including more flexible and powerful dashboards, with improved performance.
Whether you’re building dashboards, scaling Kubernetes, contributing to open source, or just getting started - this meetup is for you!
🎟 Free to attend
🍕 F&B included
🤝 Meet Grafana team and Community
🤝 Network and learn from each othercome by to . we kept a light schedule to give ample amount of time for the networking and Q&A as well.
Agenda:
10:00 - 10:30AM: Welcome and Introductions10:30 to 11:00 AM GrafanaCON 2026 recap presentation: what's new with Grafana and LGTM stack
11:00AM to 11:30 AM: Suraj's top 10 features and Major announcements from GrafanaCON 2026
11:30AM to 12:00PM: Q&A and AMA
12:00PM to 1:00PM: Networking and close off.
All events hosted by this group and communication on this platform are subject to Grafana Labs' Events Code of Conduct.
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Past events
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