What real users experience
Frontend Observability captures performance data from actual browser sessions. You instrument your frontend once, using an open source SDK that emits standard OTel signals.
- See what your users actually experience: real browser sessions, Core Web Vitals, and performance data from actual user traffic, not synthetic proxies.
- Find and fix frontend errors fast: triage errors with automatic grouping, detailed stack traces, and actionable guidance.
- Trace problems from browser to backend: connect a user’s frontend session to the exact backend service call that caused the issue, with full distributed tracing context.
- Analyze frontend data in the workflow you already use: query and visualize frontend performance alongside your application insights, logs, and traces in Grafana dashboards.
Try it out in Grafana PlayWhat keeps you up at night
| Role / Worries | What you get with the app |
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Developer- Users report checkout is slow or a page hangs, but backend metrics look fine and it doesn’t happen in staging
- Can’t reproduce it, can’t explain it
| - Real user sessions broken down by page, browser, device, and geography, so you can isolate where it’s happening and who is affected
- Tie performance data to deployment markers to catch regressions before users find them
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SRE, On-Call Engineer- During an incident, the frontend team blames the backend and the backend team’s dashboards look clean
- Hours spent debating ownership instead of fixing the problem
| - Distributed tracing connects the browser session to the exact backend span. Both teams see the same evidence.
- No more finger-pointing across separate dashboards and different data
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Frontend, Web Engineer- Error reports arrive as support tickets and screenshots
- No fast path from “a user saw this” to “here’s what broke and why”
| - Errors are automatically grouped and prioritized by user impact
- Detailed stack traces give you a direct path from symptom to root cause
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Engineering Manager, VP Engineering- Paying for a standalone RUM tool, a separate APM, and a separate logging platform
- Engineers still have to manually stitch them together during incidents
| - Browser telemetry in the same Grafana Cloud instance you already use. One fewer vendor, one fewer login.
- Frontend performance alongside your logs, traces, and application data. No manual correlation.
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