Grafana Faro
Frontend observability SDK and collector
Grafana Faro is a frontend observability web SDK that captures real-user telemetry, errors, and traces from browser applications. Data is shipped to a self-hosted collector for analysis.
Key features
- Real-user monitoring
- Error capture
- Browser traces
- Grafana integration
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
- Active community (1.1k GitHub stars)
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