Observability
Faro and Alloy: receiving front-end RUM with faro.receiver
Configure faro.receiver: CORS, API key, rate limiting, source maps, then send browser errors, Web Vitals and traces to Loki and Tempo. Real results.
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Grafana Faro: architecture and installation
Install Grafana Faro: the web SDK (npm or CDN), Alloy's faro.receiver, sending to Loki and Tempo, and configuring the application (name, version, environm…
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Faro: JavaScript errors, logs, business events and sessions
Use the Faro API: automatic error capture, manual error reporting, logs, business events and measurements, session and user identification, and source map…
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From click to database: front-end to back-end traces with Faro
Link browser requests to back-end traces: TracingInstrumentation, traceparent header propagation, CORS, and navigating in Grafana from the session to the …
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Using Faro data: queries, dashboards, alerts and GDPR
Query Faro data in Loki (Web Vitals, errors, events), build dashboards and alerts, and comply with GDPR: consent, minimization, sampling.
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Front-end observability best practices with Faro
Checklist for useful, respectful RUM: SDK configuration, versions, source maps, correlation with the back end, volume control and GDPR compliance.
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Alloy and the Grafana Labs ecosystem: which component for which tool?
The map of Alloy integrations with Faro, Beyla, k6, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, Database Observability, Fleet Management and Kubernetes Monitoring.
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Conversion funnels in RUM: measuring where users drop off
Building and reading a conversion funnel with RUM data: steps, rates, order, pitfalls, and implementation in Dynatrace, Grafana Faro, Datadog and New Reli…
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Frontend Observability in Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud RUM: Web Vitals, JavaScript errors and sessions, collected by Faro.
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Case study: this site's minimal RUM, cookie-free, exposed to Prometheus
How this site measures its Core Web Vitals with about forty lines of JavaScript, an anonymous beacon, Redis histograms and a /metrics endpoint for Prometh…
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Grafana Alloy components reference
A complete reference guide to all the components available in Grafana Alloy, organized by category (Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc.) to help you bui…
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