GrafanaCON Local Meetup: Raleigh

A 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 the GrafanaCON keynote, combined with fresh voices from your own community. 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 🍕 Pizza + soft drinks provided 🤝 Built for connection 💡 Real talks from real practitioners Agenda: 5:30 - 5:45: Arrivals and pizza 5:45 - 6:30: GrafanaCON recap presentation 6:30 - 6:45: Q&A 6:45 - 7:00: Community lightning talks [pending] 7:00 - 7:30: Discussion and more pizza! *Note that by registering for this event you consent to related event & product communications from Grafana Labs and agree to our code of conduct.*