Gain real user monitoring insights with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

Grafana Cloud has launched a public preview of its Frontend Observability service, which provides real user monitoring insights for web applications. This offering, available to all Grafana Cloud users, including those on the free tier, utilizes Grafana Faro, an open-source web SDK, to collect telemetry data that helps Development, Operations, and SRE teams understand and resolve frontend errors. Frontend Observability applies observability principles to client-side debugging, offering insights that are otherwise difficult to obtain due to the complexity of modern frontend applications. The service includes features like Error Awareness, which groups and prioritizes errors to reduce mean time to repair, and provides tools to analyze and resolve errors with detailed stack traces. Users can also build custom dashboards with frontend data stored in Grafana Cloud Logs for enhanced analysis and reporting. This initiative addresses customer requests for tools to monitor frontend applications, complementing existing backend monitoring capabilities. As it evolves towards general availability, Grafana invites user feedback and suggestions for future enhancements through its community channels.