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Application Observability

Application Observability

Observe and monitor the performance of your organization’s applications. Powered by Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry semantic conventions, and the Prometheus data-model.

Overview

Application Observability is an Application and Performance Monitoring (APM) solution built around OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and the Prometheus data-model and designed to empower your team to minimize the mean time to repair (MTTR) for application problems.

The Application Observability ecosystem:

  1. Open source Grafana OpenTelemetry SDKs to instrument your applications.
  2. The Grafana Alloy OpenTelemetry Collector to enhance and scale your data pipeline.
  3. Powerful dashboards and tools in Grafana Cloud to observe and monitor your services.

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Instrument your application
Get started and instrument your application with Beyla eBPF auto-instrumentation, a language specific auto-instrumentation agent, or manual instrumentation.
Send your data to Grafana Cloud
For development and testing, send telemetry data from your instrumented application directly to the Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint.
Set up Grafana Alloy for production
For production, set up Grafana Alloy, an OpenTelemetry Collector distribution, to enhance and scale your data pipeline.
Gain powerful application insights
Learn how to use Application Observability in Grafana Cloud. List and filter your services, view RED metrics, compare time periods, view runtime and profile information.