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Application Observability quickstart
The easiest and quickest way to get started with Application Observability is a local development setup that instruments a service with OpenTelemetry (auto or manual instrumentation) and exports the data directly to the Grafana Cloud OTLP gateway.
Opt-in for metrics generation
Application Observability requires Grafana Cloud metrics generation. Opt-in for Grafana Cloud metrics generation if it is not already enabled. Note, there is a cost associated with enabling this feature.
Quickstart guides
Follow the quickstart setup guides for:
For product setups, it is recommend to use Grafana Agent or the OpenTelemetry Collector to send data to Grafana Cloud. See the Setup Export documentation for setup instructions.
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