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title: "Application Observability | Grafana Labs"
description: "Service visibility in one app"
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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).

## Your command center for service visibility

Application Observability provides three core capabilities:

| Capability            | What it does                         | Problems solved                                             |
|-----------------------|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Service Inventory** | Auto-discovered list of all services | No more stale spreadsheets or “what services do we have?”   |
| **RED Metrics**       | Rate, Errors, Duration per service   | Consistent health metrics without custom dashboards         |
| **Service Map**       | Live dependency visualization        | See actual traffic patterns, not outdated architecture docs |

## What you see at a glance

| For each service…                       |
|-----------------------------------------|
| Name, namespace, technology stack       |
| Request rate, error rate, latency (p95) |
| Upstream and downstream dependencies    |
| Whether it’s instrumented or has gaps   |

## Questions answered

| With Application Observability, you can answer…   |
|---------------------------------------------------|
| What services are running in production?          |
| Which service has elevated error rates right now? |
| What’s downstream of this failing service?        |
| Which services aren’t sending their own traces?   |

## The foundation

> **One app. Three capabilities. The answer to “which service is the problem?”**