Introduction
Application Observability is an Application and Performance Monitoring (APM) solution built around OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and the Prometheus data-model. It’s designed to empower your team to minimize the mean time to repair (MTTR) for application problems.
Get started
To get started with Application Observability follow these steps:
- Instrument your application
- Create a free Grafana Cloud account
- Configure your telemetry data destination:
- Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint: for a quick local development and testing setup
- OpenTelemetry Collector: for a robust and scalable production setup
- Observe your services in Application Observability
Why use Application Observability?
Application Observability helps Developers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to reduce the time it takes to detect anomalies, identify the root, and fix the problem.
Application Observability helps users with:
- Data Collection: open standards and lock-in free instrumentation with OpenTelemetry to collect metrics, traces, and logs
- Anomaly Detection: pre-configured dashboards that help you to detect anomalies in your services and applications
- Root Cause Analysis: pre-configured dashboards that help you to identify the root cause of the problem
Host-based pricing
From August 1, 2024, Grafana Cloud Application Observability requires you to send host telemetry for hosts that are sending signals, so that it can calculate usage and billing. The change applies to every customer of Grafana Cloud that’s using Application Observability.
For a breakdown on host-hours pricing, refer to the Grafana Cloud pricing.
To use Application Observability beyond August 1, 2024, you need to update your instrumentation as outlined in the host-based pricing documentation.
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