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Instrument and send data

OpenTelemetry

Grafana Cloud

OTLP: The OpenTelemetry Protocol

OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools to help you analyze software performance and behavior. With OpenTelemetry you can instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data including metrics, logs, and traces.

OpenTelemetry is gaining widespread industry adoption and Grafana Labs supports the ingestion of metrics, logs, and traces through OTLP into Grafana Cloud.

Select a topic to get started sending data using OTLP:

Grafana Cloud OpenTelemetry integration: the OpenTelemetry Grafana Could integration is the quickest way to get started with Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry.
Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint: send data to the Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint from an OpenTelemetry Collector like Grafana Alloy or directly from an application.
Grafana Cloud Application Observability: application performance monitoring in Grafana Cloud to detect anomalies, identify root causes, and fix problems in applications.
Billing for Traces, Logs and Metrics: understand your invoice to analyze and reduce costs.

OTLP format consideration

OpenTelemetry doesn’t specify a data storage approach and leaves it to the observability backend to implement. Refer to the OTLP format considerations documentation for information on how OpenTelemetry metrics, logs, and traces are converted to Prometheus/Mimir, Loki, and Tempo.