SaaS · Other
Hosted by Grafana and Friends London
When
Wednesday 2 December 2026
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Where
AutogenAI
123 Pentonville Road, London N1 9LG
Price
free
Two observability talks from Grafana Labs engineers, hosted at AutogenAI on Pentonville Road.
Simon Prickett (Senior Developer Advocate) instrumented the 1980s arcade game Out Run with the OpenTelemetry C++ SDK and follows the traces, logs and screenshots through Tempo and Loki into Grafana dashboards, including the new GraphViz panel. Paulin Todev (Senior Software Engineer) covers why distributed traces are hard to collect well and how to catch the common problems with open-source tools.
Food and networking from 18:00, talks 18:30 to 20:00. Free. You can take the wheel of Out Run during networking.
practical OpenTelemetry content from the people who build the tools, with a playful demo. For SREs, platform engineers and anyone wiring up tracing.
Simon Prickett · Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs
Paulin Todev · Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
AutogenAI, 123 Pentonville Road, London N1 9LG
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