Grafana Cloud Application Observability

Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/

Three products that share the same OTLP + Mimir / Loki / Tempo / Pyroscope plumbing:

1. Application Observability — APM from OTel spanmetrics
2. Frontend Observability — Faro Web SDK, RUM + session replay
3. AI Observability — LLM / vector-DB monitoring via OpenLIT

Prerequisites

• Grafana Cloud stack + OTLP endpoint + numeric instance ID + API key with MetricsPublisher + LogsPublisher + TracesPublisher
• For APM: app instrumented with OTel SDK; for Frontend: a web app + Faro app key; for AI: Python ≥ 3.10
• Grafana Alloy as the local OTLP receiver (recommended)

Common Workflows

1. Stand up APM — Alloy receiver → Grafana Cloud + verify