# What PowerTraces is

PowerTraces is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform. Teams send traces, logs and metrics with standard OpenTelemetry
SDKs or the OpenTelemetry Collector; nothing PowerTraces-specific is installed. From that telemetry PowerTraces builds: a dashboard,
Traces, Logs, Metrics, Service map, API health, Health (uptime checks and SLOs), Incidents, Alerts, Deployments, Behavior (user
journeys, funnels, friction), Statistics (business numbers from attributes), Reports, public Status pages, Security (28 detectors),
AI insights, an Audit log, and Ingestion errors. Which pages a customer gets depends on their plan; see https://powertraces.com/pricing.md.
It is sold as a SaaS (each organization gets its own address, https://<address>.powertraces.com) and as a self-hosted on-prem edition.
The interface is available in English and Arabic, with light and dark themes.