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title: "Monitor applications | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Includes information about how to use Grafana to monitor application frontends and performance."
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# Monitor applications

Grafana Cloud contains a collection of tools that you can use to monitor your applications, identify problems, and quickly solve them.

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## Overview

Grafana Cloud offers a variety of options for you to monitor the health of your applications and gain insights into its performance, behavior, and user interactions. The understanding you derive from Grafana Cloud’s application observability offerings help you identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and improve user experience.

## Explore

[Asserts  
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Provides valuable insights into your distributed, multi-cloud, hybrid applications and enables you to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues in your environment.](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/asserts/)

[Profiles  
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Gathers detailed information about the performance of your application so that you can identify bottlenecks, optimize code, and improve the overall efficiency of your system.](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/profiles/)

[Application Observability  
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Minimizes the mean time to repair (MTTR) for modern application problems based on OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and the Prometheus data-model.](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/application-observability/)

[Frontend Observability  
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Provides a user-friendly and comprehensive method to instrument your web applications. You can monitor your application’s performance in real-time and receive a continuous stream of errors and exceptions as they occur.](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/frontend-observability/)

[AI Observability  
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Provides a user-friendly and comprehensive method to instrument your AI Application. You can monitor your LLMs and vector database performance in real-time and receive a continuous stream of errors and exceptions as they occur.](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/ai-observability/)

[Database Observability  
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Gain deep insights into database performance, queries, and wait events to troubleshoot and optimize your databases.](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/database-observability/)