GrafanaCONline's first day featured a keynote from Grafana Labs leaders, including creator Torkel Ödegaard, CEO Raj Dutt, and VP of Product Tom Wilkie, who shared the history and future of Grafana Labs and its community. Highlights included the evolution of Grafana since its inception on January 1, 2014, and the anticipation of the 7.0 release, alongside updates on the Grafana Cloud metrics and logging SaaS platform components like Loki, Cortex, and Grafana Agent. Notably, active Grafana installations have surpassed 550,000. The keynote and other sessions are available on-demand, allowing participants to engage with the Grafana community and access a full schedule of sessions, including presentations on worldPing and Industry 4.0 implementations.