# Uptrace Features

> Explore Uptrace features: alerting, dashboards, querying, service graphs, SSO, Grafana integration, and more.

This page provides an overview of Uptrace features and documentation to help you get the most out of your observability data.

## Core Signals

Explore traces, logs, and metrics collected from your services.

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      <a href="/features/traces">
        Traces
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      Navigate spans and traces, filter by service or status, inspect operation details, and view the full request timeline across services.
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      <a href="/features/logs">
        Logs and Errors
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      Browse grouped logs and errors, filter by service, search by text or attribute, and inspect individual records with stacktraces.
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      <a href="/features/metrics">
        Metrics
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      Monitor infrastructure and application metrics using pre-built dashboards or explore any metric interactively with aggregations and grouping.
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## Querying and Analysis

Query and analyze your telemetry data using a powerful query language.

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      <a href="/features/traces/querying-spans">
        Querying spans and logs
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      Filter, group, and aggregate traces and logs using UQL (Uptrace Query Language).
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      <a href="/features/metrics/querying">
        Querying metrics
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      Write PromQL-inspired queries with aliases, joins, and expressions for metrics.
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      <a href="/features/searching">
        Searching
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      Use a simple search syntax to find spans and logs quickly.
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      <a href="/features/metrics/promql-compat">
        PromQL compatibility
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      Use existing Prometheus queries with Uptrace's PromQL-compatible engine.
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      <a href="/features/traces/grouping">
        Span grouping
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      Understand how Uptrace groups similar spans together for analysis.
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      <a href="/opentelemetry/semconv">
        Semantic conventions
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      Learn about indexed OpenTelemetry attributes for optimized queries.
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## Visualization

Build dashboards and visualize your application's behavior.

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      <a href="/features/dashboards">
        Dashboards
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      Build custom dashboards from spans, events, logs, and metrics using UI or YAML.
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      <a href="/features/service-graph">
        Service graph
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      Get a visual representation of service interactions, dependencies, and performance.
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      <a href="/features/annotations">
        Chart annotations
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      Annotate charts with deployment markers, incidents, and notes for context.
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## Monitoring and Alerting

Set up monitors and receive notifications when issues occur.

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      <a href="/features/alerting">
        Alerts and notifications
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      Create metric and error monitors with notifications via email, Slack, PagerDuty, and more.
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## Data Processing

Transform and process telemetry data before it reaches Uptrace.

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      <a href="/features/transformations">
        Transformations
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      Rename, delete, or parse attributes using YAML-based rules. Drop or sample spans.
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      <a href="/features/sourcemaps">
        JavaScript source maps
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      Automatically unminify JavaScript stack traces using uploaded or fetched source maps.
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## Integrations

Connect Uptrace with other tools in your observability stack.

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      <a href="/features/grafana">
        Grafana integration
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      Use Uptrace as a Prometheus and Tempo data source in Grafana.
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      <a href="/features/mcp">
        MCP Server
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      Query spans, traces, metrics, alerts, and dashboards from AI assistants via the built-in Model Context Protocol server.
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## Single Sign-On (SSO)

Configure SSO to manage user access through your identity provider.

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      <a href="/features/sso/google">
        Google Cloud Auth
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      Use Google as an OIDC provider for Uptrace authentication.
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      <a href="/features/sso/okta">
        Okta
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      Configure Okta SAML or OIDC for enterprise SSO.
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      <a href="/features/sso/keycloak">
        Keycloak
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      Set up Keycloak as your identity provider.
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## Observability as Code

Manage your entire Uptrace setup as version-controlled configuration files.

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      <a href="/features/observability-as-code">
        Observability as Code
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      Manage orgs, projects, monitors, and channels with Terraform — dashboards as YAML.
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      <a href="/features/fixtures">
        Data fixtures
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      Seed users, organizations, and projects using YAML or JSON configuration.
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## What's Next?

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      I want to...
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      Read this
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      Send data to Uptrace
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      <a href="/get">
        Getting started
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      Learn about OpenTelemetry
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      <a href="/opentelemetry">
        OpenTelemetry documentation
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      Set up host monitoring
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      <a href="/opentelemetry/collector/host-metrics">
        OpenTelemetry Collector host metrics
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      Monitor a database
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      <a href="/guides/opentelemetry-postgresql">
        PostgreSQL
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       or <a href="/guides/opentelemetry-mysql">
        MySQL
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       guides
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