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Send Metrics

SigNoz Cloud - This page applies to SigNoz Cloud editions.
Self-Host - This page applies to self-hosted SigNoz editions.

SigNoz supports ingesting metrics from a wide range of sources, including OpenTelemetry SDKs, the OpenTelemetry Collector, and Prometheus.

Quick Start

Choose your technology stack to get started with sending metrics to SigNoz:

Runtimes

Ways to send metrics

  • OpenTelemetry SDKs: Instrument your application code to capture custom metrics.
  • OpenTelemetry Receivers: Collect metrics from infrastructure (Redis, Postgres, Kafka, etc.) using the OTel Collector. Learn more.
  • Prometheus: Scrape existing Prometheus metrics using the Prometheus Receiver. Learn more.

Next steps

Troubleshooting

Still not seeing data in SigNoz? Work through Debug missing traces, logs, and metrics, which covers SDK diagnostics, Collector connectivity, and the common ingestion errors for all three signals.

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