Gain application insights from telemetry data
Grafana’s open source stack and Grafana Cloud turn raw OpenTelemetry data into actionable insights to help you maintain reliable and performant applications.
Use these approaches to gain insights from your OpenTelemetry data with Grafana Cloud or a self-managed Grafana stack:
- Visualize application performance and behavior with Grafana dashboards
- Detect anomalies and diagnose issues using Application Observability and Asserts in Grafana Cloud
- Explore data interactively with Grafana Explore and Grafana Drilldown
- Monitor proactively and manage incidents with Grafana Alerting and Grafana IRM
Recommended setup for Grafana Cloud
Grafana Labs recommends that you set up OpenTelemetry components, including instrumentation and an OpenTelemetry Collector distribution, using one of the Grafana Cloud setup guides.
These opinionated guides make it easy to get started. They include all the binaries, configuration, and connection parameters you need to set up OpenTelemetry for Grafana Cloud.
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud is a managed platform for Grafana dashboards, Prometheus metrics, Grafana Loki logs, and Grafana Tempo traces. This observability platform helps you monitor your applications and infrastructure. Grafana Cloud delivers observability solutions powered by OpenTelemetry, so you can extract insights from your data.
Application Observability
Grafana Cloud Application Observability streamlines the collection, storage, and analysis of telemetry data. You get dashboards, service maps, and analytics for OpenTelemetry signals, helping you detect, triage, and resolve application issues.
Asserts
Grafana Cloud Asserts delivers insights into your distributed, multi-cloud, and hybrid applications. Asserts helps your team avoid frustration with dashboards that change often and lack coherence.
Grafana, Explore, and Drilldown apps
Grafana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform. Use it to create, explore, and share dashboards that visualize your OpenTelemetry data, to help monitor application health and performance. Access Grafana through:
Grafana Explore lets you query, collect, and analyze data for real-time analysis. You can start creating queries to analyze data without building a dashboard or customizing a visualization. Learn more about Grafana Explore:
Grafana Drilldown provides data exploration with queryless interactions. You can pivot between metrics, logs, and traces collected via OpenTelemetry to enable root cause analysis and troubleshooting. Learn more about Grafana Drilldown:
Alerts and Incident Response Management (IRM)
Grafana delivers alerting capabilities, so you can define rules based on OpenTelemetry metrics, logs, or traces. Route alerts to notification channels and integrate with Incident Response Management (IRM) tools to streamline on-call workflows and incident resolution. Access alerting and IRM through: