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title: "What you can do with Frontend Observability | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Core capabilities of Frontend Observability"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# What you can do with Frontend Observability

Frontend Observability is built around several core capabilities:

- **Real User Monitoring (RUM)**: Capture core Web Vitals, navigation timings, device metadata, geolocation, and network information to understand real-user performance
- **Error monitoring**: Track JavaScript exceptions and crashes, including stack traces, breadcrumbs, and source map support. Refer to [Errors overview](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/frontend-observability/visualize-data/error-awareness/).
- **User interactions and events**: Monitor navigation, clicks, and custom events to see how users interact with your application
- **Client-side tracing**: Generate spans in the browser and correlate them with backend traces for end-to-end visibility
- **Browser logs**: Collect structured client-side logs to diagnose issues and enrich traces
- **Dashboards and analytics**: Visualize performance trends, errors, and user sessions using built-in or custom Grafana dashboards
- **Alert on issues**: Create custom alerts or start with built-in presets to get notified when issues impact your users. Refer to [Frontend Observability alerting](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/frontend-observability/create-alerts/alerting/).

With these capabilities, you can quickly detect regressions, investigate slow interactions, and understand the user experience across devices, browsers, and network conditions.