Open source web SDK for frontend observability: captures page performance, Web Vitals, errors, logs and traces from browsers and sends them to Grafana Cloud or a self-run Alloy and Loki stack.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Open source
- Yes (Apache-2.0)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2022
- Status
- Active
- Website
- grafana.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Real user monitoring and session replay checklist
4 of 9 confirmed in Grafana Faro's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in RUM and replay.
- Core Web Vitals Yes
- Session replay Yes
- JavaScript errors Yes
- Mobile SDKs No
- Resource timing No
- Segmentation No
- Alerts No
- Privacy masking Yes
- Journeys or funnels No
SDK only (web; React Native unsupported): sends data to Alloy/Grafana Cloud. Waterfalls, breakdowns, alerts and journeys need Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability or dashboards you build. Replay package is experimental (rrweb-based, masks inputs by default).
Checked against: grafana.com, github.com, github.com (2), grafana.com (2)
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