Service-level visibility
Application Observability is built natively on OpenTelemetry and lives inside the same Grafana Cloud platform as your other telemetry. It:
- Tells you when your services are slow or broken
- Helps you trace what went wrong across microservices
- Gets you to the root cause without switching tools
Try it out in Grafana PlayWhat keeps you up at night?
| Role / Worries | What you get with the app |
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SRE, On-Call Engineer- When something breaks in the early morning hours, the first 30 minutes are spent just finding the right data across multiple tools
- By the time you have context, the damage is done
| - Click from a service in the map straight to traces, then logs, then profiles. No tool switching.
- Automatic correlation means no manual timestamp matching across systems.
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Developer- My endpoint is slow, but I can’t tell if it’s my code, a downstream service, or a database call underneath
- Tracing it end-to-end requires expertise I don’t have
| - Auto-generated service maps show exactly where latency is introduced across your dependencies
- Guided root cause analysis takes you from alert to likely source without needing to be an observability expert
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Platform, Observability Engineer- Proprietary agents installed across every service
- If we ever want to switch vendors, we have to re-instrument everything from scratch
| - Built natively on OpenTelemetry. No proprietary agents to install or manage.
- Your instrumentation is portable; it works with any OTel-compatible backend if you ever need to move
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Engineering Manager, VP Engineering- APM bill grows with every host we add
- Paying for multiple overlapping tools: APM here, logging there, tracing somewhere else
| - Usage-based pricing: you pay for telemetry, not per host or container, so cost tracks usage, not fleet size
- Metrics, logs, traces, and profiles in one platform. Fewer contracts, less duplication.
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