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title: "Application Observability | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Grafana Cloud application performance monitoring (APM) powered by OpenTelemetry."
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# Application Observability

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

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## Overview

Application Observability is an application performance monitoring (APM) solution designed to empower your team to minimize the mean time to repair (MTTR) for application problems. The Application Observability ecosystem consists of:

1. Open source OpenTelemetry SDKs to instrument your applications.
2. Grafana Alloy, an OpenTelemetry Collector, to enhance and scale your data pipeline.
3. Ready-made dashboards and tools in Grafana Cloud to observe and monitor your services.

## Explore

[Set up Application Observability  
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Instrument your application, set up Grafana Alloy, and ingest your data in Grafana Cloud.](./setup/)

[Gain powerful application insights  
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Use Application Observability to analyze your application performance.](./manual/)