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Presenters Bejal Marko Source GrafanaCon 2026 Alloy’s OpenTelemetry Engine: What’s New and What’s Next 🚀 Grafana Labs is leveling up its observability game with significant advancements in Alloy, their open-source observability data collector. This year marks a pivotal moment as Alloy officially becomes a fully compliant OpenTelemetry Collector distribution, bringing a wealth of new capabilities and a future-proof architecture. The Evolution of Alloy: From Collector to Standard-Bearer 🕰️ Alloy’s journey began two years ago, announced as a collector supporting both Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) formats. Last year, the focus sharpened on unifying high-performance Prometheus pipelines with OTel Collector workflows within Alloy. Now, the narrative shifts dramatically: Alloy is officially recognized as a fully compliant OTel Collector distribution, boasting native YAML support. ...

Presenters Christian Simon Alberto Soto Source GrafanaCon 2026 Pyroscope 2.0: Unleashing the Power of Continuous Profiling for Your Applications! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 We’re thrilled to dive deep into Pyroscope 2.0, the latest major release that’s set to revolutionize how you understand and optimize your applications. Yesterday marked the official launch, and even a quick 2.0.1 fix has already landed, showing the team’s dedication! Join us, Christian Simon and Alberto Soto from the Pyroscope team, as we explore the “why” behind continuous profiling, dissect the lessons learned from v1, and unveil the exciting new features and architecture of v2. Get ready for a journey that promises to make your applications faster, more efficient, and significantly easier to manage! ✨ ...

Presenters Milind Source GrafanaCon 2026 Supercharge Your Grafana Dashboards: Say Goodbye to Loading Lag with ASAPQuery! 🚀 Are you tired of staring at loading spinners while your Grafana dashboards struggle to keep up? Milind, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon and leader of ProjectASAP, has a game-changing solution that promises orders of magnitude faster Grafana dashboards and lower query costs. Get ready to meet ASAPQuery! ✨ The Pain of Slow Dashboards 😫 We’ve all been there. You’ve painstakingly set up your Prometheus-Grafana stack to monitor your deployments. But every time you adjust a time range or refresh your dashboard, you’re met with that frustrating loading lag. And as you expand your query window, that lag only gets worse. What if this entire experience could be instant? ...

Presenters Baris Gultekin Source Product School Podcast Unlocking Your Data’s Potential: How AI is Revolutionizing Enterprise Insights 🚀 Ever felt lost in a sea of data, desperately trying to find that one crucial insight? You’re not alone. For too long, accessing and understanding enterprise data has been a bottleneck, requiring a data scientist’s intervention and days of waiting. But what if you could simply talk to your data and get answers in seconds? That’s the revolution AI is bringing, and at the forefront of this transformation is Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud. ...

Presenters Gaël Jeremy Tamanini Source Green IO Podcast AI for Good? Let’s Talk Applied AI for Sustainability 🌍💡 The buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undeniable. We hear grand promises of AI solving climate change, boosting biodiversity, and finding new vaccines. But beneath the hype, especially from big tech companies, lies a more nuanced reality. The massive adoption of AI carries significant environmental impacts, from water usage to carbon emissions and energy consumption. ...