Supported Platforms
Datadog
Full-stack monitoring with APM, logs, and infrastructure metrics
New Relic
Application performance monitoring and alerting
Grafana
Dashboards and visualization for metrics and logs
Langfuse
Open source LLM engineering platform for tracing and analytics
Helicone
Open source AI gateway for LLM request monitoring
What You Get
Integrating a third-party observability platform provides:- Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Trace requests across services
- Log aggregation: Centralized logging with search and filtering
- Custom metrics: Track business and application-specific metrics
- Alerting: Get notified when metrics exceed thresholds
- Dashboards: Visualize system health and performance trends
Comparison with Built-in Observability
| Feature | Porter Built-in | Third-party Platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Pod status and metrics | ✅ | ✅ |
| Node metrics | ✅ | ✅ |
| Application logs | Basic | Advanced search and filtering |
| Distributed tracing | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom dashboards | ❌ | ✅ |
| Alerting | ❌ | ✅ |
| Long-term retention | Limited | Configurable |