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Monitor applications

Application Observability

Grafana Cloud

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:

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