ObservabilityCON 2026

ObservabilityCON 2026 is Grafana Labs' flagship observability conference, held 19-21 October 2026 at Pier 27 on San Francisco's Embarcadero waterfront. Monday 19 October is a hands-on workshop day, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., held at the Hyatt Centric Fisherman's Wharf about a mile from the main venue and requiring a separate ticket. The conference proper runs Tuesday and Wednesday: an opening keynote from Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt and CTO Tom Wilkie, technical sessions, an expo hall, an Ask the Experts booth and a welcome party. The theme is 'AI for observability. Observability for AI', spanning agent observability, Grafana Assistant, OpenTelemetry, telemetry pipelines built with Grafana Alloy, incident response and observability cost control.

Date

October 19–21, 2026

Location

Pier 27, 27 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, California

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

Grafana Labs

Added

Jul 31, 2026

Updated

Aug 12, 2026

• ✓Site reliability engineers
• ✓Platform engineers
• ✓DevOps leads
• ✓Observability engineers
• ✓Engineering managers and directors
• ✓Incident response leads
• ✓AI/ML platform teams

An engineering leader putting LLM agents into production leaves with two things documentation cannot give them: a working instrumentation pattern for agent conversations, prompts and execution traces, built hands-on with Grafana Cloud and AWS on the Monday, and a first-hand read on whether Grafana's open agentic observability platform is a shipping product or a positioning statement. The remainder of the programme is incident response, OpenTelemetry adoption and cost reduction presented by teams running observability at real scale, which is where most of the renewal argument actually sits.

• ✓Workshop: 'Intro to observability for the AI era'
• ✓Workshop: 'Advanced Grafana: From dashboard to AI command center'
• ✓Workshop: 'Instrument and observe production-ready agentic apps with Grafana Cloud and AWS'
• ✓Workshop: 'The power user's guide to the AI assistant in Grafana Cloud'
• ✓Workshop: 'Building telemetry pipelines with Grafana Alloy'
• ✓Opening keynote with Grafana Labs co-founder/CEO Raj Dutt and CTO Tom Wilkie
• ✓Session: 'Any agent anywhere: Grafana Cloud is the open agentic observability platform'
• ✓Session: 'Why observability is the key to trusting your AI agents'
• ✓Expo hall, Ask the Experts booth and Tuesday welcome party
• ✓ObservabilityCON on the Road follow-ons: Sao Paulo, London, Madrid and Bengaluru, November-December 2026

• ★Framed around practitioner lessons from production rather than vendor roadmap — an independent write-up flags the open question of whether that framing survives keynote-slot politics.
• ★All five hands-on workshops are AI-shaped, including one built jointly with AWS on instrumenting production-ready agentic apps.
• ★The workshop day is a separate venue and a separate ticket, so the two main conference days are not padded with beginner content.
• ★Grafana Labs alternates its flagship with GrafanaCon; 2026 is the ObservabilityCON year and the first to put agent observability at the centre of the programme.
• ★Follow-on ObservabilityCON on the Road stops in Sao Paulo, London, Madrid and Bengaluru in November-December 2026 for teams that cannot reach San Francisco.

Paid conference pass; Monday's hands-on workshops require a separate ticket. Grafana Labs does not publish a headline dollar price on the event, agenda or workshop pages — it has advertised early-bird tickets at '50% off the standard ticket price' (reported available through 6 August 2026) and, later, '30% off tickets for a limited time', without ever stating the standard rate. Prices are only visible inside the registration flow, so confirm there before budgeting.

When is ObservabilityCON 2026?

ObservabilityCON 2026 takes place October 19–21, 2026 in San Francisco, California.

Where is ObservabilityCON 2026 held?

ObservabilityCON 2026 is held in San Francisco, California. The event format is in-person.

How much does ObservabilityCON 2026 cost?

ObservabilityCON 2026 is paid. Paid conference pass; Monday's hands-on workshops require a separate ticket. Grafana Labs does not publish a headline dollar price on the event, agenda or workshop pages — it has advertised early-bird tickets at '50% off the standard ticket price' (reported available through 6 August 2026) and, later, '30% off tickets for a limited time', without ever stating the standard rate. Prices are only visible inside the registration flow, so confirm there before budgeting.

Who should attend ObservabilityCON 2026?

ObservabilityCON 2026 is aimed at Site reliability engineers, Platform engineers, DevOps leads, Observability engineers, Engineering managers and directors, Incident response leads, AI/ML platform teams.

What topics does ObservabilityCON 2026 cover?

ObservabilityCON 2026 covers AI observability, Agent observability, OpenTelemetry, Telemetry pipelines, Incident response and management, Full-stack observability, Grafana Cloud and Grafana Assistant, Observability cost management.

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