Attended the FOSS United Chennai Meetup Yesterday!

After, attending Grafana & Friends Meetup, straightly went to FOSS United Chennai Meetup at YuniQ in Taramani.

Had a chance to meet my Friends face to face after a long time. Sakhil Ahamed E. , Dhanasekar T, Dhanasekar Chellamuthu, Thanga Ayyanar, Parameshwar Arunachalam, Guru Prasath S, Krisha, Gopinathan Asokan

Talks Summary,

1. Ansh Arora, Gave a tour on FOSS United, How its formed, Motto, FOSS Hack, FOSS Clubs.

2. Karthikeyan A K, Gave a talk on his open source product injee (The no configuration instant database for frontend developers.). It’s a great tool. He gave a personal demo for me. It’s a great tool with lot of potentials. Would like to contribute !.

3. Justin Benito, How they celebrated New Year with https://tamilnadu.tech
It’s single go to page for events in Tamil Nadu. If you are interested ,go to the repo https://lnkd.in/geKFqnFz and contribute.

From Kaniyam Foundation we are maintaining a Google Calendar for a long time on Tech Events happening in Tamil Nadu https://lnkd.in/gbmGMuaa.

4. Prasanth Baskar, gave a talk on Harbor, OSS Container Registry with SBOM and more functionalities. SBOM was new to me.

5. Thanga Ayyanar, gave a talk on Static Site Generation with Emacs.

At the end, we had a group photo and went for tea. Got to meet my Juniors from St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology in this meet. Had a discussion with Parameshwar Arunachalam on his BuildToLearn Experience. They started prototyping an Tinder app for Tamil Words. After that had a small discussion on our Feb 8th Glug Inauguration at St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology Dr. KARTHI M .

Happy to see, lot of minds travelling from different districts to attend this meet.

Attended the Grafana & Friends Meetup Yesterday!

I usually have a question. As a developer, i have logs, isn’t that enough. With curious mind, i attended Grafana & Friends Chennai meetup (Jan 25th 2025)

Had an awesome time meeting fellow tech enthusiasts (devops engineers) and learning about cool ways to monitor and understand data better.
Big shoutout to the Grafana Labs community and Presidio for hosting such a great event!

Sandwich and Juice was nice

Talk Summary,

1⃣ Making Data Collection Easier with Grafana Alloy
Dinesh J. and Krithika R shared how Grafana Alloy, combined with Open Telemetry, makes it super simple to collect and manage data for better monitoring.

2⃣ Running Grafana in Kubernetes
Lakshmi Narasimhan Parthasarathy (https://lnkd.in/gShxtucZ) showed how to set up Grafana in Kubernetes in 4 different ways (vanilla, helm chart, grafana operator, kube-prom-stack). He is building a SaaS product https://lnkd.in/gSS9XS5m (Heroku on your own servers).

3⃣ Observability for Frontend Apps with Grafana Faro
Selvaraj Kuppusamy show how Grafana Faro can help frontend developers monitor what’s happening on websites and apps in real time. This makes it easier to spot and fix issues quickly. Were able to see core web vitals, and traces too. I was surprised about this.

Techies i had interaction with,

Prasanth Baskar, who is an open source contributor at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) on project https://lnkd.in/gmHjt9Bs. I was also happy to know that he knows **parottasalna** (that’s me) and read some blogs. Happy To Hear that.

Selvaraj Kuppusamy, Devops Engineer, he is also conducting Grafana and Friends chapter in Coimbatore on Feb 1. I will attend that aswell.

Saranraj Chandrasekaran who is also a devops engineer, Had a chat with him on devops and related stuffs.

To all of them, i shared about KanchiLUG (https://lnkd.in/gasCnxXv) and Parottasalna (https://parottasalna.com/) and My Channel on Tech https://lnkd.in/gKcyE-b5.

Thanks Achanandhi M for organising this wonderful meetup. You did well. I came to Achanandhi M from medium. He regularly writes blog on cloud related stuffs. https://lnkd.in/ghUS-GTc Checkout his blog.

Also, He shared some tasks for us,

1. Create your First Grafana Dashboard.
Objective: Create a basic Grafana Dashboard to visualize data in various formats such as tables, charts and graphs. Aslo, try to connect to multiple data sources to get diverse data for your dashboard.

2. Monitor your linux system’s health with prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana.
Objective: Use prometheus, Node Exporter adn Grafana to monitor your linux machines health system by tracking key metrics like CPU, memory and disk usage.


3. Using Grafana Faro to track User Actions (Like Button Clicks) and Identify the Most Used Features.

Give a try on these.