Mumbai chapter · powered by Grafana Labs
Observability workshop | October Edition
September 2026. Cloud Native, AI & Open Source.
- Date
- Saturday, 17th October 2026
- Time
- 10:00 AM GMT+5:30
- Venue
- ISDI School of Design & Innovation
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- 2700+
- members
- 30+
- meetups held
- 20+
- speakers hosted
- Free
- to attend
01/About
Run by volunteers. Open to anyone.
A free community meetup for developers, SREs and DevOps engineers in Mumbai, supported by Grafana Labs. We get together to talk about metrics, logs, traces, profiling and the things that break in production.
- 01
Learn
Talks and demos on the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, with enough detail to use on Monday.
- 02
Meet people
SREs, platform engineers and developers from across Mumbai. The hallway track is where most of the useful answers turn up.
- 03
Show your work
Bring a dashboard, a plugin, an eBPF experiment or an incident story. Lightning talks and demos are open to everyone.
02/Speakers
Who's speaking
Practitioners sharing what they run, what broke, and what they would do differently.
Yash Kalwani
DevOps & Observability Engineer · Community Speaker
TalkPrometheus & Loki at Scale
Specializes in high-volume metrics ingestion, query optimization, and alerting architectures.
Pratik Parikh
Cloud Architect & SRE · Community Speaker
TalkKubernetes Cluster Monitoring & Cost Analytics
Passionate about Kubernetes observability, eBPF telemetry, and Grafana dashboard craftsmanship.
Mandar Sarfare
SRE @ IBM · IBM
TalkSite Reliability Engineering with Grafana & Mimir
SRE practitioner with deep expertise in incident management, SLIs/SLOs, and multi-tenant metric stores.
Want to be on this list? Send us a talk proposal. Lightning demos and first-time speakers are welcome.
03/Schedule
The day, hour by hour
Saturday, 17th October 2026 · 10:00 AM GMT+5:30 · ISDI School of Design & Innovation
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Check-in, grab your attendee badges, and connect with fellow community members over coffee.
Doors openOrganizing Team
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Keynote: What's New in the Grafana Observability Ecosystem
A comprehensive deep dive into the latest updates across Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope.
KeynoteCommunity Keynote Speaker
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Building Observable & Durable AI Agents
Architecting resilient LLM pipelines with real-time tracing, metric evaluations, and dashboard alerts.
TalkShubham Londhe
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Visualizing Custom APIs with the Grafana Infinity Plugin
How to query, transform, and render diverse REST APIs, GraphQL, and CSV feeds directly in Grafana.
TalkYash Garudkar & Nikita Shinde
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break & Interactive Hallway Track
Enjoy complimentary lunch, explore sponsor booths, and network with peers.
BreakEveryone
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Zero-to-Hero with OpenTelemetry & Grafana LGTM Stack
Hands-on instrumentation for microservices using OpenTelemetry SDKs, Tempo tracing, and Loki logs.
TalkGuest Speaker
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Community Lightning Talks & Demos
Fast-paced 7-minute demos from community members showing innovative dashboards and observability hacks.
DemosCommunity Members
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Live Observability Quiz & Swag Giveaway
Test your knowledge in a live Kahoot quiz with exclusive Grafana swag packs for the winners!
QuizCore Team
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing Remarks & High Tea Networking
Event recap, community photo session, feedback, and open networking over tea and snacks.
NetworkingOrganizing Team
04/Topics
What we talk about
Four areas come up at almost every meetup. Pick the one you're fighting with this month.
- a.
Metrics, Dashboards & Alerting
Real-time Telemetry & Visualization
Learn to query high-throughput time-series data with PromQL, visualize custom data sources with Grafana plugins, and configure multi-channel alerts.
- PromQL Query Optimization
- Multi-tenant Mimir Storage
- SLO & Golden Signal Dashboards
Tools: Prometheus · Grafana Mimir · Infinity Plugin · Alertmanager
- b.
High-Velocity Log Aggregation
Cost-Effective Log Exploration
Explore horizontal log aggregation using Grafana Loki. Learn structured metadata, regex label extraction, and pinpointing exceptions from millions of lines.
- Zero-index Log Aggregation
- LogQL Stream Selectors
- Live Log Streaming & Alerts
Tools: Grafana Loki · Promtail · LogQL · Grafana Alloy
- c.
Distributed Tracing & OpenTelemetry
End-to-End Request Journey
Instrument cloud-native microservices with OpenTelemetry SDKs, collect distributed spans via Grafana Alloy, and trace cross-service bottlenecks in Tempo.
- OTel Collector Pipelines
- TraceQL Filter Queries
- Span-to-Metrics Correlation
Tools: OpenTelemetry · Grafana Tempo · TraceQL · Jaeger
- d.
eBPF Telemetry & Continuous Profiling
Zero-Code Kernel Instrumentation
Harness Linux eBPF with Grafana Beyla for auto-instrumentation without code changes, and analyze CPU/memory flame graphs down to the line of code.
- Zero-Code eBPF Tracing
- Continuous CPU Flame Graphs
- AI Pipeline & LLM Tracing
Tools: Grafana Beyla · Grafana Pyroscope · eBPF · AI Observability
Got something for one of these? Send us a talk proposal.
05/Photos
From past meetups
Real rooms, real people. Come say hello at the next one.
06/Grot
Meet Grot, our mascot
Grot is Grafana's dinosaur. According to the lore it slept for 65 million years before waking up to triage dashboards. It has opinions about your queries.
Use rate() on counters with a time window at least 4x your scrape interval to avoid noisy spikes caused by missed scrapes.
1 of 5
"May your queries be fast, your dashboards clear, and your latency low!"
07/Team
The people behind it
The organisers and volunteers who put these meetups together.
Nikita Shinde
Lead Organizer & Grafana Champion
DevOps Engineer
Afzal Hassan
Co-Organizer
DevOps Engineer
Om Santosh Songire
Co-Organizer
ML & Data Enthusiast
Core Members
08/Contests
Two ways to win swag
Both run before and during the meetup. Winners are announced on stage.
Refer a friend
Invite fellow developers and SREs to join the Grafana & Friends Mumbai meetup group.
- 1Register for the meetup on Meetup.com or Konfhub.
- 2Share the event link with your college or team.
- 3The top referrers get Grafana swag at the check-in desk.
Meme contest
Share your observability stories, memes and event excitement on LinkedIn and X.
- 1Post an observability meme, or a post about your favourite Grafana dashboard.
- 2Tag @grafanamumbai on X or LinkedIn and use #GrafanaMumbai.
- 3The best posts win Grafana merch and get shown on stage.
09/Partners
Who makes this possible
Venues, food and swag come from Grafana Labs and the community groups and companies below.
Community and collaboration partners
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- W
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What you can take home
Community T-shirt
A Grafana & Friends Mumbai edition tee for quiz winners and active participants.
Sticker pack
Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir and Prometheus vinyl laptop stickers for every attendee.
Grot collectibles
Grot collectibles, badges and thank-you tokens for speakers.
Can you host, feed or sponsor a meetup in Mumbai? Email the organisers.
10/FAQ
Questions people ask
- What is Grafana & Friends Mumbai and how can I join?
- Grafana & Friends Mumbai is the official local chapter for developers, SREs, DevOps engineers and students who care about observability. Join the group on Meetup.com and you will be notified of every in-person and virtual meetup.
- Is attending the meetups free?
- Yes. Every meetup, workshop and event is free and open to everyone. Grafana Labs and our community partners cover the costs.
- How can I become a speaker or present a talk?
- We welcome talks at every experience level. A 10-minute lightning demo or a 30-minute deep dive on metrics, logs, traces or incident response all work. Send a proposal through the Call for Speakers form.
- What is the format and typical agenda of a meetup?
- A typical meetup has 2 or 3 technical talks, hands-on demos, Q&A, a quiz with swag, and time to talk over food and drinks.
- Can my company sponsor or host a future meetup?
- Yes. We are always looking for venues, sponsors, and food or swag partners in Mumbai. Email the organising team at grafanamumbai@gmail.com.
- What Code of Conduct applies to community events?
- We follow the Grafana Events Code of Conduct and the Contributor Covenant, so events stay safe, inclusive and free of harassment.
Something else? grafanamumbai@gmail.com gets to the organisers.