ObservabilityCON 2026
Grafana Labs, Pier 27 San Francisco, Oct 19–21

• When: October 19–21, 2026 (Mon = optional workshops; Tue–Wed = main conference)
• Where: Pier 27, 27 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
• Organizer: Grafana Labs
• Tagline: "AI for Observability. Observability for AI. Solutions for all."
• Interest list: opened 2026-07-10; early-bird pricing promised when registration opens (target: ~week of 2026-07-14).
• On-the-Road satellites: one-day events for people who can't make SF — announced cities London, São Paulo, Bengaluru, Madrid (more TBD).

• grafana.com/events/observabilitycon/ — official conference page.
• Grafana Labs interest-list email, 2026-07-10 (update@grafana.com).

Grafana Labs's annual observability-practitioner conference. TODO — write after the 2026 program lands. Structure to mirror GrafanaCon 2025 (the previous year's Grafana Labs conference) for the same audience shape.

• Monday, Oct 19 — Hands-on workshops (optional; additional ticket required).
• Tuesday, Oct 20 — Opening keynote; technical sessions + community use cases; Ask the Experts booth; live AI demos; community party.
• Wednesday, Oct 21 — Technical sessions + community use cases; Ask the Experts booth; live AI demos.

Pulled from official page + interest-list email — the topic surface Grafana Labs is positioning for 2026:

• Scaling observability across teams and organizations
• Adopting OpenTelemetry
• Building and operating AI-powered applications
• Improving incident response and reliability
• Reducing costs while maintaining visibility
• Using AI to accelerate investigation and troubleshooting
• AI Observability (Grafana's product) — "reliable QA for AI," high-level insights into "where developers' time and tokens go"
• Live agentic-tools/workflows demos inside Grafana Cloud

Framing is heavier on the practitioner-lessons-from-production posture than on vendor product roadmap — worth watching whether that survives into the actual program or gets diluted by keynote-slot politics.

Once talks are captured, cross-link to relevant research notes. Prior in-corpus:

• GrafanaCon 2025 — the previous year's Grafana Labs conference, same-organizer predecessor.
• Observability Summit NA 2026 — parallel observability event, same practitioner audience, different organizer.
• Agent Telemetry Systems — AI-observability specifically; the "using AI to accelerate investigation" theme is likely to land here.
• AI Tinkerers Boston 2026-06-29 — Poliakov's "Durable and Observable AI Agents" talk (DBOS) is the closest recent adjacent talk.
• crowsnest — the site's own local LLM observability tool. If a talk lands here, the crowsnest thread is the natural landing spot.

• [X] Confirm dates → October 19–21, 2026.
• [X] Confirm venue → Pier 27, The Embarcadero, San Francisco.
• [ ] Check whether this is a rebrand of GrafanaCon or a distinct conference running alongside — Grafana Labs's naming has drifted and the two names now coexist in some materials.
• [ ] Register on the interest list if the 50% early-bird pricing proves real.
• [ ] Watch for CFP / speaker list once program is announced; agentic-observability track will be worth pulling per-talk.
• [ ] If the London / São Paulo / Bengaluru / Madrid On-the-Road dates land nearby anyone in the corpus reader base, consider a sibling event note per satellite location.
• [ ] Wire into site/events/index.org Upcoming/Past list.