Application observability based on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

Grafana Cloud Application Observability is an out-of-the box solution to monitor applications and minimize MTTR (mean time to resolution). Application Observability natively supports both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus and allows you to bring together application telemetry with data from the frontend and infrastructure layers in Grafana Cloud.

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50GB traces
10k metrics
50GB logs of telemetry
14-day retention
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Easy setup, immediate insights

Configure Application Observability in minutes to start ingesting data and detecting anomalies.

Troubleshoot application issues faster

Correlate metrics, logs, and traces across frontend, application, and infrastructure layers to improve MTTR.

Avoid vendor lock-in

Combine OpenTelemetry and Prometheus instrumentation in Grafana Cloud to unify your telemetry and use PromQL-based query languages to query across your data.

Why use Grafana Cloud for application observability?

Real-time application observability with prebuilt dashboards and workflows

Track real-time performance of all your services with service inventory view.
Visualize related services and their activities in a dynamic service map.
Isolate problematic domains with service overview, which shows RED metrics for a service alongside its dependencies and execution environment (e.g., Kubernetes, host, cloud metadata).
Navigate through correlated metrics, logs, and traces to identify root causes without losing context.
Set up application monitoring alerts with prebuilt templates.

Service overview page in Grafana Cloud Application Observability.

Example of viewing OpenTelemetry traces in Grafana Cloud Application Observability.

Correlate observability signals across the full stack

Unify traces, metrics, and logs with the OpenTelemetry data model and schema.
Bring together infrastructure telemetry in Prometheus format and application telemetry in OpenTelemetry format.
Store your data in Grafana Cloud’s highly scalable, cost-effective, fully managed databases, powered by open source.

Compatible with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

Built for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus from day one and 100% compatible with both open source projects.
Use OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation agents or SDKs to instrument your applications. No more expensive, proprietary instrumentation or vendor lock-in.
Enable infrastructure- and application-level monitoring with Grafana Agent Flow, which has native pipelines for both Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

Service map view of applications alongside dependencies and environments in Grafana Cloud Application Observability.

It’s easy to get started

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Instrument

Configure your services to send telemetry to Grafana Cloud. Use OpenTelemetry for instrumentation for maximum value

Activate

Activate Application Observability metrics generation on your trace data in Grafana Cloud

Visualize and discover

Get instant insights into how your services perform and interact down to the operational level

For full implementation details and best practices, see the guide

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Application observability for every user, every organization, every use case.

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Application Observability uses Grafana Cloud Traces, Grafana Cloud Metrics, and Grafana Cloud Logs to store data. This volume is subject to regular Grafana Cloud pricing.