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Grafana Phlare

Scalable continuous profiling backend

Grafana Faro

Frontend application observability web SDK

Grafana Agent

Batteries-included telemetry collector

Grafana k6

Load testing for engineering teams

Prometheus

Monitor Kubernetes and cloud native

OpenTelemetry

Instrument and collect telemetry data

Graphite

Scalable monitoring for time series data

Community resources

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Prometheus exporters

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Daniel González Lopes

How to correlate performance testing and distributed tracing to proactively improve reliability

4 min | 3 Nov 2022

How we use Grafana and Prometheus to monitor the traffic of our many GitHub repositories

3 min | 20 Sep 2021

Get started with distributed tracing and Grafana Tempo using foobar, a demo written in Python

5 min | 4 May 2021

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How to correlate performance testing and distributed tracing to proactively improve reliability

How we use Grafana and Prometheus to monitor the traffic of our many GitHub repositories

Get started with distributed tracing and Grafana Tempo using foobar, a demo written in Python

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