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Application Observability
Observe and monitor the performance of your organization’s applications. Powered by Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry semantic conventions, and the Prometheus data-model.
Overview
Grafana Application Observability is an observability solution designed to minimize the mean time to repair (MTTR) for modern application problems based on OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and the Prometheus data-model.
The Application Observability ecosystem:
- Open source Grafana OpenTelemetry SDKs to instrument your applications.
- The Grafana Alloy OpenTelemetry Collector to enhance and scale your data pipeline.
- Powerful dashboards and tools in Grafana Cloud to observe and monitor your services.
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Get started
Get started and set up instrumentation SDKs for development, testing, and production. Set up a production data collector, data sampling, and learn how to scale your setup.
Grafana Alloy
Set up and configure Grafana Alloy to enhance and scale your data pipeline - the Grafana recommended way to setup an OpenTelemetry Collector.
OpenTelemetry Collector
Set up and configure the upstream and community supported OpenTelemetry Collector to enhance and scale your data pipeline.
User manual
Learn how to use Application Observability in Grafana Cloud. List and filter your services, view RED metrics, compare time periods, view runtime and profile information.
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