Dashboards and alerts can tell you something’s wrong, but they don’t immediately tell you why.
A red indicator or synthetic test failure prompts detective work. You flip between dashboards, timestamps, and logs, trying to line up what the check saw with what the system did.
Now imagine your monitoring could explain itself by sending traces directly into your OpenTelemetry (OTel) backend.
See synthetic insights in your observability dashboards
Uptrends’ OpenTelemetry compatibility means every browser-based test, chained API call, and authenticated, multi-step user transaction emits OTel traces and metrics.
And it won’t flood your pipeline and cause unforeseen expenses.
Uptrends sends lightweight telemetry signals to your observability platform, so you see issues in one dashboard. It keeps “heavier” evidence like filmstrips, waterfalls, and screenshots, making these accessible via a deep link within the trace.
Now you can not only see problems in your observability dashboards, but also understand the full story from user click to backend span.
No new tools. No heavy data ingestion. No inflated costs.
What you can do with OpenTelemetry compatibility
- See problems sooner: Synthetic traces appear instantly in platforms like Grafana or Elastic, surfacing anomalies before users are affected.
- Find root causes faster: One-click pivot from the failing trace to the exact Uptrends run, with full visual diagnostics ready to review.
- Keep ingestion lean: Only traces and metrics are exported. Your heavier assets remain securely in Uptrends.
- Maintain existing workflows: It’s pure OpenTelemetry (no agents, no schema mapping, no tool migration).
For SRE and Ops teams, this means faster root cause analysis, clean pipelines, and a unified view that covers end user experience and backend performance.
OpenTelemetry is key to open, composable observability
Central monitoring teams are moving away from one-size-fits-all observability platforms to gain flexibility, control, and compliance for their IT environments.
For many, that means assembling their own observability stacks, integrating best-of-breed tools for infrastructure, APM, logging, and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM).
Within those stacks, DEM provides outside-in visibility. Uptrends’ real-browser synthetic monitoring delivers a high-fidelity view of what end-users actually experience, capturing full transactions across browsers and regions.
It’s the end user’s voice when something goes wrong.
With OpenTelemetry compatibility, Uptrends now fits natively into custom-built observability ecosystems. It lets you stream high-fidelity synthetic insights alongside backend traces and metrics.
The result: a connected, open observability strategy that keeps best-of-breed flexibility without sacrificing visibility or context.
How to get started
Uptrends’ OpenTelemetry compatibility is available now.
Your account manager and our engineering team will guide you through the setup step-by-step, so you can be confident everything connects cleanly first time.
Here’s what that looks like:
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Connect your OpenTelemetry endpoint: Our engineers will help you configure secure OTLP/gRPC authentication and confirm connection stability.
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Validate your data flow: Together we’ll verify that synthetic traces and metrics appear accurately in your observability dashboards.
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Organize and route your data: We’ll help map specific monitor groups to the right endpoints for a clean, compliant structure that fits your observability design.
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Fine-tune and test: We walk you through real-time validation, showing you how to pivot from traces to Uptrends runs and confirm correlation accuracy.
Early adopters are already collaborating with us to correlate browser-level synthetic data with backend traces in Elastic and Grafana, uncovering issues faster and fixing with precision.
Contact your account manager to join the early-adopter program. We’ll make sure your DEM insights talk fluent OpenTelemetry with your observability stack.