Episodes 29
Avg. Duration 56m
Activity Declining
Apple Rating 5.0 (8)
Since Mar 2022
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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A Grafana Labs' show all about the people, community, tools, and tech around Observability.

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S3E8 Building Better Go Systems with Logs, Context, and Profiling

Apr 03, 2026 1h 2m Transcript

In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, host Mat Ryer is joined by Donia Chaiehloudj (Isovalent), Charles Korn (Grafana Labs), and Bryan Boreham (Grafana Labs) to break down how to make Go…

S3E7 Agents in Production: The Future of AI-Driven Observability

Feb 27, 2026 1h 2m Transcript

In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, host Tom Wilkie is joined by Spiros Xanthos (Founder & CEO, Resolve AI), Manoj Acharya (VP of Engineering at Grafana Labs), and Cyril Tovena (Principal…

S3E6 The Evolution of OpenTelemetry with Co-founder Ted Young

Feb 13, 2026 57m Transcript

In this episode, hosts Mat Ryer and Matt Toback sit down with Ted Young, co-founder of OpenTelemetry, to unpack the real story behind OTel — from its Google origins to today’s push toward zero-touch…

S3E5 The Future of Dashboards: Git Sync, SQL Expressions, and Dynamic Layouts

Jan 30, 2026 1h 1m Transcript

Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie sit down with Grafana creator, Torkel Ödegaard, and Grafana Labs' Distinguished Engineer, Ryan McKinley, to unpack Grafana 12’s biggest shifts and experiments. Topics include…

S3E4 From Pitch to Product: How Grafana's Hackathons Turn Weird Ideas into Real Features

Jan 16, 2026 1h 4m Transcript

Hosts Mat Ryer and Matt Toback welcome Grafana engineers Sven Großmann, Alexa Vargas Ortega, and Lukasz Gut for a deep dive into Grafana’s internal hackathons. They discuss ideation, team formation,…

S3E3 Building Grafana Mimir’s Next-Gen Architecture with WarpStream Co-Founder, Ryan Worl

Jan 02, 2026 1h Transcript

In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie sit down with Marco Pracucci (Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs), Cyril Tovena (Principal Software Engineer, Grafana Labs,…

S3E2 Inside Prometheus 3.0: UTF-8, Native Histograms, and OpenTelemetry Interoperability

Dec 19, 2025 53m Transcript

In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie sit down with Julius Volz, co-creator of Prometheus and founder of PromLabs, and Richi "RichiH" Hartmann, Prometheus maintainer…

S3E1 Confessions of a serial tinkerer: Homelabs gone wild, secret raspberry pi stashes, and more

Dec 05, 2025 38m Transcript

Recorded live at GrafanaCon Seattle, hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie kick off Season 3 of Grafana’s Big Tent by welcoming Ivana Huckova (Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs), Andrew McCalip (Head of…

S2E10 Making 3D Printing Observable with Prusa Research

Jan 10, 2025 45m Transcript

In the season two finale, hosts Tom Wilkie and Mat Ryer are joined by Richard "RichiH" Hartmann, Director of Community at Grafana Labs, and Pavel Strobl of Prusa Research to explore the intersection…

S2E9 The Past, Present, and Future of OpenTelemetry

Dec 20, 2024 1h 4m Transcript

Two members of the OpenTelemetry governing board, Daniel Gomez Blanco and Juraci Paixão Kröhling, join Mat and Matt to dive deep into the evolution of OTel from its early days (including the story of…

S2E8 Kubernetes, Kepler, and Carbon Footprints: The Latest Tools and Strategies to Optimize Observability

Dec 06, 2024 1h 6m Transcript

Hosted by Tom Wilkie, this week's episode features Thomas Dullien, former Co-Founder and CEO of Optimyze; Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs' distinguished engineer; and Senior Software Engineer at Grafana…

S2E7 Inside Grafana 11 with Founder Torkel Ödegaard

Nov 15, 2024 49m Transcript

Join hosts Tom Wilkie and Mat Ryer along with Torkel Ödegaard, the creator of Grafana, and Mitch Seaman, Senior Product Director for Grafana, as they dive into the making of Grafana 11 and explore…

S2E6 How eBPF Makes Observability Awesome

Nov 01, 2024 1h 1m Transcript

Hosts Tom Wilkie and Matt Toback sit down with guests Liz Rice from Isovalent and Mario Macías from Grafana Labs to explore how eBPF is revolutionizing observability, networking, and security in…

S2E5 Monitoring Kubernetes: Why traditional techniques aren't enough

Oct 18, 2024 1h 8m Transcript

In this episode of Grafana's Big Tent, hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie dive into the world of monitoring Kubernetes with guests Vasil Kaftandzhiev from Grafana Labs and Dio Tsoumas who leads the DevOps…

S2E4 Adapting to the Metrics Cardinality Crisis

Oct 04, 2024 55m Transcript

Join host Mat Ryer as he explores the world of Adaptive Metrics with Grafana Labs engineers Patrick Oyarzun and Mauro Stettler, alongside guest Oren Lion from TeleTracking. What started as a…

S2E3 Observability to Controllability: Lessons in DDoS Mitigation with Cloudflare

Sep 20, 2024 55m Transcript

In this episode of Grafana's Big Tent, host Matt Toback explores the world of DDoS protection and observability with guests Alex Forster, Engineering Manager at CloudFlare, and Dee Kitchen, VP of…

S2E2 The (No) Blame Game: A Sustainable Approach to Incident Management

Sep 06, 2024 1h 2m Transcript

In this episode, hosts Tom Wilkie and Mat Ryer are teaming up with Grafana Labs’ Devin Cheevers and Prezi’s Alex Koehler to tackle the world of on-call responsibilities and incident management. Alex…

S2E1 Cache Rules Everything Around Me

Aug 23, 2024 1h 7m Transcript

To kick off season two of Grafana's Big Tent podcast, our host Mat Ryer is back and he's bringing along some heavy hitters! Get ready for a deep dive into the world of caching with Memcached…

S1E10 Shift left observability, SLOs, logs — all the highlights from season 1

Sep 30, 2022 44m

From the saddest log line in the multiverse to how metrics, logs, and traces are like a mother sauce, our intrepid hosts, Mat Ryer, Matt Toback, and Tom Wilkie, have been joined by distinguished…

S1E9 Live from GrafanaFest: Grafana Labs founders AMA

Jul 25, 2022 48m

Note: This episode contains a couple of curse words. If you have sensitive ears nearby, maybe save it for later.In this special episode, Grafana Labs' founders Raj Dutt, Anthony Woods, and Torkel…

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