We’d love to learn more about you, whether you’re new or a community veteran!
Introduce yourself*, tell us where you’re from and a bit about your hobbies. Optional: your favourite Grafana feature
Want to get extra creative? Head to your favourite AI tool, and ask it to create a limerick including your name, your hobbies and any other interesting info.
E.g. There once was a dancer named Eva, Whose dashboards were sharp as a cleaver. She’d read and she’d bake, Then code for a break— Grafana by day, cook by fever!
*(Regular and cheesy introductions are both welcome).
Hi there - I’m Simon from Nottingham, England. I recently started work as a Developer Advocate at Grafana, but have used Grafana dashboards on a variety of projects for some time now.
You’ll usually find me tinkering with some IoT or maker project or another, which I try and document on my website and/or GitHub. I enjoy building things with Raspberry Pi Pico microcontrollers and MicroPython, but you’ll find all sorts of other projects there. I’m always happy to talk about these and answer questions. Other interests include travel, aviation, reading and cycling.
I asked ChatGPT to make a limerick based on the above, and we got…
Simon from Nottingham’s crew,
Builds dashboards with Grafana in view.
When he’s not on the clock,
He’s crafting IoT stock—
With Picos and planes in the queue!
Heyyyyoooooo Folks!!! Im Brian from Potsdam, New York. I have been working with the Grafana Stack for about 6 years now. Started off using it for hobbies, then introduced it to a colocation facility to give customers data on there machines, power consumption, and ROI. Now days im a Systems Engineer, and Freelance developer contributing to Open Source solutions. i enjoy automating things, streamlining workflows, fixing broken processes, and all together making magic happen. Always happy to engage the community to help others, discuss interesting use cases, and just network in general.Some other hobbies i have are travelling, spending time with my two huskies, i have a huge hoard of classic 80’s Audi’s i tinker with, and hiding in my cabin in the woods.
i had ChatGPT make a limerick and heres what it came up with:
There once was a tech from Potsdam,
Whose dashboards were never a sham.
With Grafana he played,
And some magic he made,
While his huskies ran wild through the dam.
I am Imma from Barcelona. I have been a developer advocate at Grafana for over two years. I started my journey at Grafana k6 and have recently been diving deep into the world of OpenTelemetry and Alloy—fascinating stuff!
I’m passionate about building communities, so I love organizing meetups and community events and sharing talks or workshops. I strongly believe in allyship to make our community as diverse and welcoming as possible.
Please don’t hesitate to ping me if there’s anything I can help with, whether it’s related to these technologies, community building, or Grafana. I’m here to learn and contribute!
On a slightly different note, I’m a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, so you might even spot me at some of his concerts! Feel free to say hi if you do
I asked Hemini for a limerick, and here is what I got…
From Barcelona, Imma so keen,
A Grafana advocate, plainly seen.
With OTel and more,
And meetups galore,
A Springsteen fan , community queen!
Hi! I’m David from Virginia USA. I’ve been doing open source & free software related stuff since I was a teenager. I got started by contributing to GNU packages, and later went into working in developer advocacy in order to get a chance to do a mix of highly technical software engineering stuff combined with community & more human related things, too. I owe a huge part of my career progression to getting to be a fly on the wall in OSS communities, to learn through doing, together with other people.
My hobbies are things like 3d printing, music, and languages.
My favorite feature of Grafana is extensibility. Things like data source plugins, visualizations, and apps. Often good OSS comes with open doors, frankly we can’t do everything (nobody can) so giving people a mechanism to build anything is imho a good idea. (And that’s what they’re doing). It’s the open door that lets people express their ideas when they know better.
There once was a geeky lad Dave,
From Virginia who surfed the FOSS wave;
He hacked at old GNU
And helped devs, it’s true—
Grafana’s plug‑doors are his fave!
(I go by David, not Dave, but I’ll allow this from the AI because it rhymes)
I am Raymond from South Africa. I won the inaugural Golden Grot award. I have been using Grafana for about 3 years. I enjoy assisting the community, as I was assisted when I was learning Grafana, so I like to pay it forward! I also enjyy aquascaping in my free time!
There are so many diverse use cases, it’s always interesting to see what people use Grafana for, and what they expect it to be able to do, and most of the time you can make it do it, even if it takes a couple of ugly workarounds
Reach out to me on the forum, I will try to assist where I can!
Blockquote
A data nerd sipped their banana,
While tweaking alerts in Grafana.
“This spike here at three—
That’s just me having tea!”
They graphed it and called it “Java-nana.”
I am very new to Grafana, im working on a project that i would like to integrate with Grafana and looking forward to learning and assisting wherever possible.
I am a massive music and movie fan, who also enjoys building Lego and I have recently started running which I am enjoying.
One adventure I’m saving up for on my bucket list is to visit the iconic Times Square in New York City, a location showcased in countless memorable movies.
Hello Team, My name is Kevin Jones and I somewhat new to GRAFANA and trying to get on master level in time… However, I have been in IT for over 36 years touch several technologies like mainframe, middleware, monitoring tools and plethora of other tools and technologies. Glory GOD who has kept me through it all.
Hi there, I’m Jo from Germany out of the “Bergische Land”.
I’ve been using Grafana for round about three years.
Most of our dashboards were created with the ingenious Flow-Chart Plugin.
I miss it.
That’s how I came to work with Canvas and Business Charts.
I love musik. Porcupine Tree is high on my list at the moment.
And I love riding my motobike.
Here is what gemini says: (and I’m not the youngest anymore)
Young Jo, from the beautiful Bergische Land,
With his motorbike close at his hand.
With music his cheer,
He’d shift into gear,
Exploring each path in the land.
And I hope that I can contribute something from time to time to help someone else.
Head to your favourite AI tool, and ask it to create a limerick including your name, your hobbies and any other interesting info.
, community queen!
