ObservabilityCON 2026

ObservabilityCON 2026 is Grafana Labs' flagship observability conference, held October 19-21, 2026 at Pier 27 in San Francisco. The 2026 edition is built around both halves of the AI question — using AI and agentic workflows to run observability, and instrumenting AI systems themselves — with an optional hands-on workshop day, two days of keynotes and technical deep-dives, and live demos of Grafana Cloud's agentic tooling and Grafana Assistant.

Date

October 19–21, 2026

Location

Pier 27, San Francisco, CA, United States

Format

In-Person

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

Grafana Labs

Source

daily-ingest

• ✓VP of Engineering
• ✓CTO
• ✓Head of Platform Engineering
• ✓SRE
• ✓Observability Engineer
• ✓DevOps Engineer
• ✓Platform Team Lead

Engineering leaders shipping agentic and LLM-backed systems into production hit the same wall — the existing observability stack cannot explain what an agent did or why it cost what it cost. ObservabilityCON 2026 is one of the few vendor events treating that as its central agenda rather than a side track, and the hands-on OpenTelemetry and AI-observability labs give a platform team something implementable rather than a roadmap slide.

• ✓Opening keynote on observability innovations and new Grafana Cloud AI features
• ✓Technical deep-dives on AI observability and digital experience monitoring
• ✓Live demos of agentic tools and workflows in Grafana Cloud
• ✓Hands-on workshops on dashboard building and OpenTelemetry pipelines
• ✓Expo hall and interactive demo stations
• ✓Welcome party and networking

• ★Explicitly two-sided AI framing — AI for observability and observability for AI — rather than a bolted-on AI track
• ★Optional Monday hands-on lab day at Hyatt Centric Fisherman's Wharf with a separate ticket
• ★Ask the Experts desk staffed by Grafana engineers
• ★Regional ObservabilityCON on the Road follow-ons in Sao Paulo, London, Madrid and Bengaluru in fall/winter 2026