Observability

Presenters Mohamed Adem Jackson Sweeney Oren Lion Dhananjay Yadav Source GrafanaCon 2026 The Golden Grot Awards: Celebrating Innovation in Observability! 🌟 Welcome to a special highlight from GrafanaCON, where we celebrate the brightest minds and most innovative projects in the observability space with the coveted Golden Grot Awards! This year marks the fifth anniversary of these prestigious awards, recognizing excellence and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, especially with the growing influence of AI. Let’s dive into the incredible winners who are shaping the future of technology! 🚀 ...

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 Chris Nick Source GrafanaCon 2026 TamaGROTchi: Bringing Observability to Life (and Your Desk!) 👾✨ Remember those addictive digital pets from your childhood, the Tamagotchis? You know, the ones that had a mysterious knack for kicking the digital bucket, leaving you scratching your head wondering why? Well, prepare for a blast from the past with a modern, observability-infused twist! Chris and Nick from Grafana are here to introduce you to TamaGROTchi, the 2026 version that’s not just cute, but a powerful demonstration of how we can bring observability to the smallest of devices. ...

Presenters Chris Field Kevin Field Source GrafanaCon 2026 Fusion, ML, and Grafana: The Unexpected Power Trio Driving Scientific Discovery 🚀💡 Ever thought you’d see fusion energy, machine learning, and data visualization tools like Grafana talked about in the same breath? Well, prepare to have your mind blown! Chris Field and Kevin Field from Theia Scientific are here to show us how these seemingly disparate technologies are converging to accelerate scientific breakthroughs, particularly in the quest for fusion power. Their innovative solution, the Theiascope, is weaving these threads together, creating a powerful new way to understand and advance complex research. ...

Presenters swyx Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 AI Engineers: Building the Future, One Agent at a Time 🤖✨ The world of work is rapidly evolving, and at the forefront of this transformation are AI engineers. Swyx, co-founder of the AI Engineer conference, shares his journey and insights on how AI is not just a tool for coding, but a powerful force for augmenting human productivity and reimagining business operations. The Evolution of AI Engineer Conferences 🚀 Swyx has been a consistent voice at the AI Engineer conference, tracking the seismic shifts in AI adoption. ...