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Welcome to Telemetry 👋

Quick start guide

Wide events vs. metrics

Ingesting data

1. Better Stack collector

2. Vector

3. OpenTelemetry

4. Ingesting via HTTP API

5. Ingesting metrics

6. Ingesting logs

   1. Docker & Kubernetes

   2. Operating systems

   3. Log forwarders

   4. Programming languages

      1. JavaScript & Node.js

         1. Quick start guide

         2. Advanced usage

         3. Frameworks

      2. Python

      3. Ruby

      4. PHP

      5. Java

      6. .NET

      7. Go

      8. Erlang

   5. Cloud platforms

   6. Web servers & Load balancers

   7. Databases & queues

   8. Storage

7. Migrating to Better Stack

Using the product

1. AI SRE ↗

2. MCP server ↗

3. Transforming ingested data

4. Querying data

5. Tracing

6. Alerts

Telemetry API

1. Getting an API token

2. Sources & collectors

3. Dashboards

4. Explorations

5. Alerts API

6. Connections API

7. Query API ↗

Alternative to

1. Lightstep

Better Stack provides clients for JavaScript, Node.js, and multiple logging frameworks. Choose the right approach for you below.

Recommended: Better Stack JavaScript client

Collect logs from browser and Node.js with Better Stack logger.

• Quick start guide

Already using a logging framework?

• Pino transport
• Koa middleware
• Winston transport
• Bunyan stream

Using AWS Lambda?

• Logging in AWS Lambda running Node.js

Using edge runtime (eg. Cloudflare Workers)?

• Logging in edge runtime