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Presenters Marty Marco Source GrafanaCon 2026 Grafana’s Hard-Earned Lessons: How Incidents Shaped Our Databases 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of massive, scalable databases like Grafana Tempo and Mimir? Well, buckle up, because Marty and Marco from Grafana are pulling back the curtain to share some real incidents that led to some major improvements in their distributed tracing and time-series databases. It’s a story of learning the hard way, embracing transparency, and building more robust systems. ✨ ...

Presenters Richard Donovan Seosaimh O Fatharta Source GrafanaCon 2026 From Trackside to Tech: How Irish Rail is Revolutionizing Operations with Data and Grafana 🚀 Ever wondered how the trains keep running smoothly, even when the unexpected happens? It turns out, behind the scenes of Ireland’s national railway, a quiet revolution is taking place, powered by data, ingenuity, and a surprisingly flexible open-source tool: Grafana. Forget complex, expensive enterprise solutions; Irish Rail is proving that you can achieve incredible results with a lean, iterative approach, transforming a massive, traditional organization into a data-driven powerhouse. ...

Presenters Jacob Coffee Source GrafanaCon 2026 The Python Software Foundation’s Observability Revolution: Building a Self-Hosted Stack for Community Power 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Jacob Coffee, Director of Engineering at the Python Software Foundation (PSF), recently shared a fascinating journey of how the PSF built its own self-hosted observability stack using Grafana, Loki, Mimir, and Alloy. This isn’t just about fancy dashboards; it’s a story of empowering a massive global community, managing incredible scale, and championing open-source principles. Let’s dive in! ...

Presenters Andy Katrina Source GrafanaCon 2026 SCinet: Building the World’s Fastest Temporary Network 🚀 Ever wondered what happens when thousands of scientists, engineers, and tech enthusiasts converge for a massive high-performance computing event? Andy and Katrina from ESnet are here to pull back the curtain on SCinet, the incredibly ambitious and lightning-fast temporary network that powers the annual Supercomputing conference! 🌐 What is SCinet? 🤔 Imagine a network so powerful it makes your home internet look like a dial-up modem. That’s SCinet! It’s the research network built specifically for the Supercomputing conference, a major event where industry and academia showcase the latest in high-performance computing, networking, and storage. ...

Presenters Sunil Gopalakrishna Source GrafanaCon 2026 From Barnyard Beasts to Beautiful Dashboards: Visualizing Farm Emissions with Grafana 🐄💨📊 Ever wondered about the invisible world of farm emissions? Sunil Gopalakrishna, a researcher at the Thünen Institute of Agriculture Technology, is tackling this complex challenge head-on, and he’s doing it with a brilliant blend of low-cost sensors and powerful open-source visualization tools. Get ready to dive into how he’s transforming raw sensor data from barns into actionable insights on a dynamic dashboard! ...