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

# Third-party observability

> Integrate Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Langfuse, and Helicone with your Porter cluster for advanced application monitoring and observability

Porter integrates with popular observability platforms to provide application-level monitoring, logging, and alerting beyond the built-in cluster observability features.

## Supported Platforms

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Datadog" icon="dog">
    Full-stack monitoring with APM, logs, and infrastructure metrics
  </Card>

  <Card title="New Relic" icon="chart-line">
    Application performance monitoring and alerting
  </Card>

  <Card title="Grafana" icon="chart-area">
    Dashboards and visualization for metrics and logs
  </Card>

  <Card title="Langfuse" icon="robot">
    Open source LLM engineering platform for tracing and analytics
  </Card>

  <Card title="Helicone" icon="bolt">
    Open source AI gateway for LLM request monitoring
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## 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                  |

For production workloads, we recommend integrating at least one third-party observability platform to get comprehensive visibility into your applications.