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Application Observability (APM)

Application Observability (APM)

Observe and monitor the performance of your organization’s applications. Powered by Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry, and the Prometheus data-model.

Note

If your Grafana Cloud organization was onboarded after September 7, 2026, refer to the Application Observability powered by the knowledge graph documentation.

Overview

Application Observability is an application performance monitoring (APM) solution designed to empower your team to minimize the mean time to repair (MTTR) for application problems. The Application Observability ecosystem consists of:

  1. Open source OpenTelemetry SDKs to instrument your applications.
  2. Grafana Alloy, an OpenTelemetry Collector, to enhance and scale your data pipeline.
  3. Ready-made dashboards and tools in Grafana Cloud to observe and monitor your services.
Give it a try using Grafana Play
Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Application Observability.

Try it

Explore

Set up Application Observability
Instrument your application, set up Grafana Alloy, and ingest your data in Grafana Cloud.
Gain powerful application insights
Use Application Observability to analyze your application performance.