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title: "Connect an agent to Agent Observability | Grafana Labs"
description: "Enable Agent Observability on a Grafana Cloud stack, authenticate the SDK, capture your agent's first generation, find it in Conversations, and export its traces and metrics."
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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).

# Connect an agent to Agent Observability

Agent Observability records each LLM call you instrument as a generation, groups generations into conversations, and links each generation to its trace and metrics. This path connects an agent you already run to Agent Observability on a new Grafana Cloud stack.

## Here’s what to expect

When you complete this path, you’ll have:

- Enabled Agent Observability on your stack
- Collected the **API URL**, **Instance ID**, and a Grafana Cloud Access Policy Token
- Configured the SDK with five `AGENTO11Y_` environment variables
- Installed the SDK for your language and captured one generation
- Found that generation in **Conversations**
- Exported the SDK’s spans and metrics to your **Traces** and **Metrics** data sources

## Before you begin

- A Grafana Cloud account and the Admin role on the stack. Agent Observability is not yet enabled; Milestone 1 enables it.
- A working agent in Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or .NET that you can run locally, with the runtime its language page requires.
- An LLM provider API key if you instrument your own agent or use the .NET provider helper. The first manual-capture sample on the Python, JavaScript, Go, and Java pages does not call a provider.
- A place to save the values you copy, such as a notes file. Milestones 2 and 3 each copy values you need again in Milestone 4, and the token is shown only once.

For the full setup reference, refer to [Set up Agent Observability in Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/agent-observability/get-started/grafana-cloud/).

## How this path fits the journey

This path is the hands-on part of the [Introduction to Agent Observability](https://grafana.com/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-agent-observability/) journey. The journey explains each step before you do it.

## Troubleshooting

If you get stuck, we’ve got your back! Where appropriate, troubleshooting information is just a click away.

## More to explore

We understand you might want to explore other capabilities not strictly on this path. We’ll provide you opportunities where it makes sense.

Are you ready?

[Let's go!](https://grafana.com/docs/learning-paths/connect-agent-to-agent-observability/enable-agent-observability/)