Grafana & Friends Frankfurt: Keycloak SLIs & Traffic Data in Grafana

Join us for a Grafana & Friends Frankfurt Meetup, co-organized with the AWS community!
This evening features two talks on observability: user-centric service level indicators with Keycloak, and visualizing large-scale traffic data in Grafana for transportation research in Frankfurt am Main.
Who is this for?
Platform engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers, data engineers and technical leads who run or build on Grafana, Prometheus and the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), plus data scientists and researchers interested in visualizing geospatial and time-series data, and anyone curious about observability on Kubernetes and AWS.
Agenda.
🕕 18:00 - 18:30 | Arrival & Check-in
Kick off the evening with a warm welcome and meet the community.
🕡 18:30 - 18:45 | Welcome & Opening Remarks
Grafana & Friends Frankfurt & AWS community
Each talk is 20 minutes plus 10 minutes of Q&A.
🎙️ 18:45 - 19:15 | Talk 1
💣 Making users happy with service level indicators and observability

• Description: A single sign-on system like Keycloak is a central component of the application landscape. Users depend on it to log in to their applications. Detailed monitoring and analysis options help prevent outages or resolve them quickly. Keycloak ships with Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry support out-of-the-box. This allows you to monitor and trace all your IAM calls and spot errors and slow requests. We also provide a guide to service-level indicators and a matching Grafana dashboard for defining and monitoring behavior from the user's perspective. This talk offers practical advice on using Keycloak and is also a case study of how observability can be implemented for custom-built applications.
• Speaker: Alexander Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer @ IBM (Keycloak)
• Bio: Alexander Schwartz is a Principal Software Engineer at IBM. At work and in his spare time he codes for Open Source projects. In a previous job he worked as a software architect and IT consultant. At conferences and at user groups he talks about Observability, Keycloak, APIs and how to run this in a maintainable and scalable way.

🎙️ 19:15 - 19:45 | Talk 2
💣 Counting cars across Frankfurt am Main: Visualizing Traffic Data in Grafana for Transportation Research

• Speaker: Amir Babaei, Data Scientist & PhD Candidate @ Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
• Bio: Amir Babaei is a Data Scientist and PhD Candidate at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, specializing in urban mobility digital twins and Graph Neural Networks. He leverages Grafana to visualize large-scale geospatial traffic data and monitor the high-performance computing infrastructure driving his research.

🍕 19:45 - 21:00 | Pizza, Beer & Networking
Wrap up the evening with 🍕 pizza and 🍺 beer, and chat with the speakers and the community!
Venue: Optiop GmbH, Am Hauptbahnhof 16, 60329 Frankfurt am Main