Earley AI Podcast – Ep. 86: Open Source, Observability, and AI-Driven Engineering with Tom Wilkie

The Adults In The AI Room · Apr 17, 2026 · 48m · transcript

How Grafana Labs Built a Competitive Edge Through Openness, Agentic AI, and Engineering Culture

Guest: Tom Wilkie, VP of Product at Grafana Labs

Host: Seth Earley, CEO at Earley Information Science

Published on: April 17, 2026

In this episode, Seth Earley speaks with Tom Wilkie, VP of Product at Grafana Labs, a leading observability platform serving 25 million users across 50 global regions. They explore how Grafana's open source "big tent" philosophy creates unexpected competitive advantages in the AI era, why agentic AI is transforming how engineers respond to production incidents, and how…