Core features and use cases

STACKIT Observability is designed to help you monitor, analyze and improve the performance of your systems and applications all in one managed service. It unifies metrics, logs and traces to provide deep insights into your entire system landscape.

Core Features

STACKIT Observability delivers a comprehensive, managed monitoring stack built on industry-standard open-source components. Below is an overview of its most important features:

Integrated observability stack: Benefit from a complete toolchain combining Grafana for visualization, Prometheus for metric collection, Thanos for long-term storage, Grafana Loki for log aggregation and Grafana Tempo for distributed tracing.

Self-service setup and management: Quickly create and manage observability services through the STACKIT Cloud Portal. Use the intuitive interface or API to connect your systems and start collecting telemetry data within minutes.

Comprehensive telemetry collection: Collect metrics, logs and traces from diverse sources using the OpenTelemetry standard. You can push telemetry data directly or scrape metrics endpoints.

Customizable dashboards and visualizations: Visualize your data using flexible, configurable dashboards powered by Grafana. Combine multiple chart types, filters and panels to get a tailored view of your infrastructure and application health.

Threshold-based alerting: Set up detailed alerting rules with Prometheus Alertmanager to notify your teams when thresholds are exceeded. Notifications can be sent via multiple communication channels, ensuring fast response times.

Long-term data retention: Store your metrics for up to 26 months and logs and traces for up to 30 days, enabling deep historical analysis and trend detection.

Managed and highly available components: All components are operated, updated and maintained by STACKIT, ensuring high availability and reducing operational overhead. Auto-updates keep your observability stack current and secure.

Secure integration and access control: Observability integrates seamlessly with STACKIT’s permission and role model, ensuring secure access management for dashboards, alerts and data.

Use cases

STACKIT Observability provides powerful capabilities for monitoring and analyzing cloud-native environments, making it suitable for a variety of use cases:

Monitor applications and infrastructure: Gain real-time visibility into your services, containers, databases and infrastructure metrics. Detect performance bottlenecks early and prevent downtime.

Centralize logs, metrics and traces: Unify your observability data in one platform to quickly correlate metrics, logs and traces for faster troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Set up alerting for proactive operations: Configure alerts that trigger when system performance degrades or thresholds are reached. Notify the right teams immediately to ensure rapid incident response.

Support multi-team environments: Create separate folders and dashboards for different projects, teams or environments all within one observability instance.

Enable long-term trend analysis: Use Thanos-based storage to retain and compare performance data over time, helping you optimize capacity planning and improve service reliability.

Simplify monitoring with managed services: Eliminate the complexity of deploying, scaling and updating your observability stack. STACKIT manages all underlying components, so you can focus on insights rather than infrastructure.

STACKIT Observability helps you stay in control of your systems by providing reliable, customizable and fully managed monitoring. With integrated visualization, alerting and data retention, it enables teams to move from reactive monitoring to proactive performance management.