Grafana Labs
Circuit mix
Where Grafana Labs shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Cloud providers39%4 events
- Postgres & open-source databases17%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows11%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps11%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner6%1 event
- Open-source data infrastructure6%1 event
- Python & R data science6%1 event
- Software engineering & trading tech6%1 event
Presence by conference and year
Each cell is one conference in one year. Fill shows the company sponsored, shaded by its best tier that year; a dot means it had speakers there. Hover for details; click to open the event.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
| MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | ||||||||||
| FOSDEM | ||||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||||
| Google Cloud Next | ||||||||||
| OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | ||||||||||
| DuckCon | ||||||||||
| Percona Live | ||||||||||
| PyCon (national Python conferences) | ||||||||||
| QCon |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale. 2027, 2028 is still mostly ahead, so its bars are faded and incomplete.
Conferences present at
Distinct conferences each year, split by whether the company sponsored or only had speakers there.
- Sponsored
- Speakers only
Distinct speakers
People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Gold
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, up from 1 in 2022.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. Tiers use the best tier each year; swatches show the path, oldest first. A conference counts as pulled out only when a later event published a complete sponsor list, since most events don’t say whether their list is complete.
New 3
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- Data + AI Summitfirst sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- FOSDEMfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- Google Cloud Nextfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- AWS re:Invent2 of 4 years, 2022–25
Lookalikes
Companies with the most similar conference footprint: they sponsor and speak at the same conferences. Bars are cosine similarity, from 0 (nothing shared) to 1 (identical).
- groundcover0.78
- HashiCorp0.77
- Wiz0.77
- SUSE0.74
- Slack0.72
- Palo Alto Networks0.70
- Virtusa0.70
- Tech Mahindra0.70
14 Cluster: AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 5 this company sponsored).
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Grafana Labs (ringed) and the 30 companies closest to it on the company map. Close together means they sponsor and speak at many of the same conferences. Distances are only meaningful locally; the axes have no meaning. Dot size: conferences present at. Color: cluster.
Sponsorships 5
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud Next '26 | Apr 22–24, 2026 | Las Vegas, United States | Foundation | Other |
| FOSDEM 2026 | Jan 31, 2026 – Feb 1, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium | Main sponsor | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2025 | Dec 1–5, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Data + AI Summit 2025 | Jun 9–12, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Explorer | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2022 | Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 2, 2022 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
Speakers 10
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun Ding | OSA CON 2026 | speaker | Who Watches the Watcher: Benchmarking AI Agents That Debug Your Dashboards | Slides · Video |
| Wei-Chin Call | OSA CON 2026 | speaker | Who Watches the Watcher: Benchmarking AI Agents That Debug Your Dashboards | Slides · Video |
| Joel Verezhak | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | speaker | We Built an Agent, We Shipped a Compiler. Here's Why | — |
| Bryan Boreham | QCon London 2026 | speaker | Understanding and Tuning System Performance with CPU Hardware Counters | — |
| Sam Jewell | FOSDEM 2026 | speaker | Cube, dbt and Grafana: the OSS stack that blends Data Analytics with Observability data | Slides · Video |
| Oleksandr Kotov | MCP Dev Summit Europe 2025 | speaker | One Test a Day Keeps the Issues Away | — |
| Sam Jewell | DuckCon #6 | lightning talk | How NOT to use DuckDB: How we introduced a CVSS 9.9 vulnerability into Grafana | — |
| Mario Macías | PyCon Ireland 2023 | talk | OpenTelemetry metrics for Python without the remorse, i.e. with eBPF | — |
| Raj Dutt | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | [NEW LAUNCH!] Introducing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana | Slides · Video |
| Tom Wilkie | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | Grafana Loki: Like Prometheus, But For Logs | — |