This month we are collaborating with Grafana and Friends Pune.

Get ready for an exciting event with Grafana & Friends: Happy Hours! This session will bring together industry experts to discuss the latest trends and advancements in monitoring, observability, dashboarding, and much more.

Registration link: https://community.cncf.io/e/mbkmt8/

Agenda

10:30 AM
Intro and Welcome

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
GrafanaCon Recap

A recap of all the updates and releases made at Grafana in Seattle.

Speaker: Sandeep Sukhani (Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs)

11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Grafana Mimir: Prometheus is powerful — until scale hits

This session introduces Grafana Mimir, a scalable metrics backend that solves Prometheus’s limits. Learn how Mimir works, why it matters, and how to get started with it in minutes. Perfect for beginners exploring observability at scale.

Speaker: Sanika Kotgire (Cloud and DevSecops at HPE)

11:40 AM - 12:10 PM
Conversational Clusters: Introduction to kubectl-ai, your AI-powered Kubernetes sidekick

Kubernetes is the backbone of modern cloud-native infrastructure, but let’s face it: managing clusters, writing YAML, and troubleshooting issues can be a grind for developers, DevOps, and SRE teams alike. Let's explore kubectl-ai your AI-powered CLI assistant that brings natural language, automation, and intelligence to Kubernetes management.

Speaker: Swapnil Kulkarni (Leading Customer Success & Solution Architecture at Kloudfuse)

12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
The AI-Observability Loop: Using AI for Observability and Observing AI Systems

Observability is evolving, and AI is both the driver and the passenger. This talk explores two sides of the same coin: how AI is being used to supercharge observability and why observability is becoming essential for trustworthy AI.

Speaker: Pramod Pawar (Co-Founder & CIO at VirtueCloud)

12:40 PM - 01:00 PM
Snacks and Networking

Registration link: https://community.cncf.io/e/mbkmt8/