> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.openlit.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> LLM observability for traces, metrics, logs, and exceptions - all in one Telemetry page, built on OpenTelemetry

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The **Telemetry** page is the single home for every OpenTelemetry signal OpenLIT ingests from your AI applications. Navigate to it at `/telemetry`. It has four tabs, all backed by the same ClickHouse tables (`otel_traces`, `otel_metrics_*`, `otel_logs`) populated by the OpenTelemetry Collector built into OpenLIT:

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  <Card title="Traces" href="/latest/openlit/observability/telemetry/traces" icon="diagram-project">
    Distributed traces with grouping, a five-view trace detail explorer, and span/resource attributes
  </Card>

  <Card title="AI Analysis" href="/latest/openlit/observability/telemetry/ai-analysis" icon="sparkles">
    AI-generated review of a trace or span across strengths, improvements, cost, and token efficiency
  </Card>

  <Card title="Metrics" href="/latest/openlit/observability/telemetry/metrics" icon="chart-line">
    Every OTel metric OpenLIT has received, with a trend chart and data-point detail per metric
  </Card>

  <Card title="Logs" href="/latest/openlit/observability/telemetry/logs" icon="file-lines">
    Searchable, filterable OTel log records with a detail view per entry
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

The **Exceptions** tab is documented alongside Traces since it reuses the same trace detail explorer - see [Traces & Exceptions](/latest/openlit/observability/telemetry/traces).

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  <Card title="Quickstart: LLM Observability" href="/latest/openlit/quickstart-ai-observability" icon="bolt">
    Production-ready AI monitoring setup in 2 simple steps with zero code changes
  </Card>

  <Card title="Create a dashboard" href="/latest/openlit/dashboards/overview" icon="grid">
    Create custom visualizations with flexible widgets, queries, and real-time AI monitoring
  </Card>

  <Card title="Integrations" href="/latest/sdk/integrations/overview" icon="circle-nodes">
    60+ AI integrations with automatic instrumentation and performance tracking
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## Frequently asked questions

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  <Accordion title="What is AI observability?">
    AI observability is the practice of collecting traces, metrics, and logs from LLM applications and agents so you can understand behavior, cost, latency, and errors in production - OpenLIT does this via standard OpenTelemetry data.
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  <Accordion title="Does OpenLIT support log monitoring, not just traces?">
    Yes. Logs have their own dedicated explorer under Telemetry, ingested the same way as traces and metrics through the built-in OpenTelemetry Collector's OTLP receiver.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can I still use dashboards alongside the Metrics explorer?">
    Yes. The Metrics explorer and Dashboard Widgets read from the same underlying data - use the explorer to inspect a single metric, and dashboards for cross-signal, trend-style visualizations.
  </Accordion>
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