Uptrace Tutorial: Dashboards, Percentiles, Heatmaps & OpenTelemetry Metrics
Learn how to use *Uptrace* to measure what truly matters in your applications using percentiles, heatmaps, and histograms—then turn that data into dashboards that answer questions before they’re even asked.
In this tutorial, you’ll discover how to:
- Build insightful dashboards with latency percentiles, heatmaps, and histograms
- Use ready-to-go dashboards for popular frameworks
- Work with full *OpenTelemetry* support, including exponential histograms
- Query metrics using a *PromQL-compatible* language
- Turn spans and logs into metrics with `uptrace_tracing_spans`
- Monitor *unlimited metrics with no hidden fees*
- Connect *Grafana* using Uptrace as a Prometheus data source
- Ingest metrics from *Prometheus* and *AWS CloudWatch*
Whether you’re setting up observability for the first time or replacing expensive monitoring tools, this guide shows how Uptrace helps you understand performance, reliability, and user experience — all in one place.
👉 Get started with Uptrace: https://uptrace.dev