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# [[Auto-instrumentation]]
![[Auto-instrumentation.svg]]
Auto-instrumentation is a way to [[Instrumentation|collect and forward]] [[Telemetry]] information to other tools in the [[Observability]] stack, like databases and visualisation tools. The "auto" part is a bit of a misnomer because it's not really "automatic" in the sense that there's nothing that needs to be done; all auto-instrumentation tools still need to be deployed and configured to work correctly.
There are two popular auto-instrumentation frameworks:
- [[Prometheus]]: recommended for [[Infrastructure observability]]
- [[OpenTelemetry]]: recommended for [[Application observability]]
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## Resources
- Internal Grafana document [about deciding between Prometheus and OpenTelemetry](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i7BGdn_8bu_-rTy788ISm90MNn7YDu-ik0v2TjP9OHA/edit)
- Internal Grafana document [about the Grafana Cloud OpenTelemetry Support FAQ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H07c1465AiYpyBHAYB3QiRHiNy8yP6w9DeR6ZdgLrRI/edit)
- Internal Grafana Slack thread [about OpenTelemetry and Prometheus basics](https://raintank-corp.slack.com/archives/C06G9RVKK6J/p1717601703488469)
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