Grafana Cloud Application Observability Skill

Overview

Grafana Cloud provides three tightly related application monitoring products:

1. Application Observability (APM) - RED metrics from OTel traces, service inventory, service maps
2. Frontend Observability - RUM/Faro SDK for browser apps, session replay, web vitals
3. AI Observability - LLM/model monitoring via OpenLIT + OTel, token/cost/latency metrics

All three integrate with Grafana Tempo (traces), Loki (logs), and Pyroscope (profiles) for full-stack correlation.

Application Observability (APM)

What It Is

Application Observability is a pre-built APM experience in Grafana Cloud built on top of OpenTelemetry. It generates RED (Rate, Error, Duration) metrics from distributed traces via span metrics, then surfaces them in: