ObservabilityCON on the Road Comes to Toronto as Grafana Labs Scales Momentum in Canada

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is bringing its global ObservabilityCON on the Road series to Toronto with a one-day conference on March 5, 2026. The event will bring together local engineering leaders, customers, and partners to explore the latest in AI-driven observability through deep technical sessions and real-world success stories.

As Canada continues to emerge as a key hub for cloud adoption, AI innovation, and digital transformation, Grafana Labs is expanding its presence and community engagement across the country. This initiative underscores the company’s commitment to empowering organisations of all sizes, from fast-growing local tech firms to global enterprises, to harness observability as a competitive advantage.

“Canada is home to some of the most advanced engineering teams and AI-driven platforms in the world,” said Devin Cheevers, Director of Product, Grafana Labs. “As software becomes more distributed and AI-driven, open observability is no longer optional — it’s foundational. Bringing ObservabilityCON on the Road to Toronto is about investing in the local community, learning from customers at scale, and sharing how open, AI-powered observability helps teams move faster with confidence.”

Expanded Footprint and Innovation in Canada

As software systems become more distributed, more AI-driven, and more central to business outcomes, organisations are choosing Grafana Cloud, the company’s open observability cloud built on open source, open standards, and open ecosystems, to avoid lock-in and navigate system complexity with clarity. This demand continues to drive strong growth for Grafana Labs, which recently surpassed 7,000 customers worldwide, including global brands such as Anthropic, Atlassian, Salesforce, and Microsoft, reflecting broad adoption across industries and geographies.

The company’s momentum is further reinforced by recent industry recognition, including:

• Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision
• Ranked #13 on Forbes’ Cloud 100, marking the fifth consecutive year on the list
• Named a Leader in GigaOm’s Cloud Performance Testing Radar Report
• Recognized as Best Observability Solution for Grafana Cloud in the 2025 DevOps Dozen Awards

In Canada, Grafana Labs continues to invest in expanded support, deeper community engagement, and a growing partner ecosystem to help organisations improve system reliability, reduce downtime, and gain real-time insight into the health and performance of business-critical services. These capabilities are increasingly vital across financial services, technology, telecommunications, public sector, and AI-driven industries.

This impact is especially evident among organisations powering Canada’s most critical digital services — including Bell Canada and TD Bank — which rely on Grafana to support mission-critical operations, improve operational resilience, and maintain visibility at scale across complex, distributed environments.

ObservabilityCON on the Road Toronto: Sessions, Stories, and Takeaways

ObservabilityCON on the Road Toronto will feature technical presentations from Grafana engineers and senior product leaders, and customer success sessions, including Just Eat Takeaway.com (parent company of Skip the Dishes), designed to show how organisations across the region are driving real observability value, including:

• Actually Useful AI: Speakers will share how Grafana’s AI capabilities are delivering practical, day-to-day value for engineering and SRE teams. Attendees will see how Grafana Assistant helps teams query telemetry, generate dashboards, and reduce cognitive load, and how Assistant Investigations, an autonomous, agentic AI for multi-step incident analysis, coordinates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles to surface evidence, hypotheses, and actionable recommendations during incidents.
• Reimagined SaaS Economics: As telemetry volumes surge with cloud-native and AI workloads, event talks will explore how organisations are regaining control of observability spend while maintaining deep visibility. Sessions will cover Grafana’s Adaptive Telemetry suite, which gives customers a unified, intelligent way to manage telemetry volume and spend without sacrificing visibility, as well as flexible deployment models like Bring Your Own Cloud, showing how teams can scale observability sustainably as their platforms grow.
• Complexity, Simplified: Sessions will showcase how Grafana Cloud helps users move from raw signals to action faster with turnkey observability experiences that reduce operational complexity. This includes Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph, which enables true full-stack observability by automatically mapping relationships across services, infrastructure, and telemetry, as well as new out-of-the-box solutions such as Instrumentation Hub and Database Observability.

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Gartner®, Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, By Gregg Siegfried, Matt Crossley, Padraig Byrne, Andre Bridges, Martin Caren, 7 July 2025

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About Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale, enabling organizations to see, understand, and act on all their disparate data so they can move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 25 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,400+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.