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Application Observability

Application Observability

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

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.

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1. Instrument your application
Set up OpenTelemetry instrumentation for your application with Grafana or community SDKs.
2. Send your data to Grafana Cloud
For development and testing, send telemetry data directly to the Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint.
3. Set up an OpenTelemetry Collector
For production, set up an OpenTelemetry Collector to enhance and scale your data pipeline.
4. Gain powerful application insights
Use Application Observability to analyze your application performance.