# PowerTraces > OpenTelemetry observability with built-in intelligence. PowerTraces is an OpenTelemetry-native platform: teams send traces, logs and metrics with standard OpenTelemetry SDKs or the Collector, and get answers about reliability, customer journeys, business impact and security. Hosted in the EU, with a self-hosted edition. English and Arabic. Nothing proprietary is installed: any OTLP exporter works. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. Sign up at https://powertraces.com/signup. Questions go to contact@powertraces.com. ## Product - [Overview](https://powertraces.com/index.md): what PowerTraces does - [Pricing](https://powertraces.com/pricing.md): current plans, quotas and retention - [Everything in one file](https://powertraces.com/llms-full.txt): the full product documentation ## Documentation - [What PowerTraces is](https://powertraces.com/docs/overview.md): The product in one page: signals, pages and how it's sold. - [Live demo](https://powertraces.com/docs/live_demo.md): Trying PowerTraces without signing up. - [Getting started](https://powertraces.com/docs/getting_started.md): From sign-up to the first trace in about five minutes. - [Sending telemetry (endpoints, keys, languages, Collector)](https://powertraces.com/docs/sending_telemetry.md): Endpoints, auth headers, environment variables and per-language setup. - [Keys and credentials](https://powertraces.com/docs/credentials.md): How server keys and browser keys work. - [What each page needs](https://powertraces.com/docs/unlock_pages.md): Which attributes turn on each page. - [Traces, logs, metrics, service map, API health, dashboard](https://powertraces.com/docs/observability_pages.md): What the core observability pages do. - [Health, SLOs, incidents and alerts](https://powertraces.com/docs/health_incidents_alerts.md): Uptime checks, SLO error budgets, automatic incidents and alert rules. - [Behavior (journeys, funnels, friction)](https://powertraces.com/docs/behavior.md): User-journey analytics from ordinary frontend spans. - [Security](https://powertraces.com/docs/security.md): Threat detection from existing telemetry. - [Reports and status pages](https://powertraces.com/docs/reports_status_pages.md): Scheduled reports and public status pages. - [AI insights](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_insights.md): Asking questions about telemetry and getting explanations. - [Organizations, workspaces, members and roles](https://powertraces.com/docs/teams_and_access.md): Who can see what, in the portal and in the app. - [Billing, trials, quotas and retention](https://powertraces.com/docs/billing_and_limits.md): How plans, the daily ingest quota and retention work. - [On-prem (self-hosted) edition](https://powertraces.com/docs/on_prem.md): Running PowerTraces on your own infrastructure. - [Troubleshooting](https://powertraces.com/docs/troubleshooting.md): Fixes for the most common setup problems. - [Trace your AI calls and agents](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_tracing.md): Tracing model calls, tool calls and agents from Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and other providers. - [AI tracing: Claude](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_claude.md): Send Claude (Anthropic) traces to PowerTraces. - [AI tracing: OpenAI / ChatGPT](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_openai.md): Send OpenAI / ChatGPT (OpenAI) traces to PowerTraces. - [AI tracing: Gemini](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_gemini.md): Send Gemini (Google) traces to PowerTraces. - [AI tracing: .NET AI](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_dotnet.md): Send .NET AI (Microsoft.Extensions.AI) traces to PowerTraces. - [AI tracing: Vercel AI SDK](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_vercel.md): Send Vercel AI SDK (Vercel) traces to PowerTraces. - [AI tracing: LangChain · LlamaIndex](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_frameworks.md): Send LangChain · LlamaIndex (OpenInference) traces to PowerTraces. - [AI tracing: Amazon Bedrock](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_bedrock.md): Send Amazon Bedrock (AWS) traces to PowerTraces. - [AI tracing: Other providers](https://powertraces.com/docs/ai_others.md): Send Other providers (Mistral · Ollama · Cohere · Groq) traces to PowerTraces. ## Public API (no sign-in) - [Plans as JSON](https://powertraces.com/api/billing/plans) - [Documentation topics as JSON](https://powertraces.com/api/product/topics) - Search the documentation: `https://powertraces.com/api/product/search?q=your+question` ## MCP server - `https://powertraces.com/mcp`: Streamable HTTP, no sign-in. Tools: list_docs, get_doc, search_docs, get_plans, list_articles, get_article ## Articles - [تشريح زمن استجابة النماذج اللغوية: قياس TTFT وتتبع التدفق واقتصاديات الوحدات](https://powertraces.com/blog/decomposing-streaming-llm-latency-ttft-rag-telemetry.md): دليل هندسي لتفكيك طلبات النماذج اللغوية وتدفقات RAG عبر التتبع الموزع، لعزل زمن أول رمز مميز وتتبع معدل التوليد وحماية اقتصاديات الوحدات. - [ما بعد «تراجع المستخدم في الخطوة 3»: تشخيص مسارات التحويل بالتتبع الموزع](https://powertraces.com/blog/correlating-distributed-traces-with-session-ids-funnel-dropoffs.md): توضح تحليلات واجهة المستخدم أين ينقطع مسار التحويل، لكنها تعجز عن تفسير أسبابه. يشرح هذا المقال كيفية ربط معرف الجلسة بالتتبع الموزع للتمييز بين الأعطال الصامتة والاحتكاك السلوكي. - [Stop Citing the 100ms Rule: How to Build Your Own Latency-Revenue Curve](https://powertraces.com/blog/build-latency-revenue-elasticity-curve.md): Generic latency rules fail in engineering debates. Learn how to join distributed trace spans with checkout outcomes to measure your true latency-revenue curve. - [Alert on Burn Rate, Not Raw Error Rate](https://powertraces.com/blog/burn-rate-alerts-error-budgets.md): Threshold alerts either page for noise or miss real outages. Multiwindow burn-rate alerts tie paging to how fast the error budget is being spent, with Prometheus rules you can adapt. - [Tail Sampling Is a Stateful System: Design It Like One](https://powertraces.com/blog/tail-sampling-stateful-system-design.md): Tail sampling rules are the easy part. Routing by trace ID, sizing memory, and handling late spans decide whether the OpenTelemetry Collector keeps the traces you need. - [Allowlist, Don't Blocklist: Redacting Telemetry](https://powertraces.com/blog/allowlist-redaction-for-telemetry.md): Blocklist regexes miss whatever you did not think of. A fail-closed allowlist at the source and in the OpenTelemetry Collector keeps secrets and personal data out of traces, logs and metrics. ## Free .NET library - [Free .NET library: OpenTelemetry traces and logs in your own database](https://powertraces.com/library.md): A free .NET library, also for commercial use, that writes OpenTelemetry traces and logs into SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB or SQLite, with a built-in dashboard. No collector, no migrations. ## Free tools - [SLO & error budget calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/slo-error-budget.md): Turn an availability target into allowed downtime and failed requests. - [Burn-rate alert planner](https://powertraces.com/tools/burn-rate-alerts.md): Multi-window burn-rate alerts that page early and stay quiet. - [Uptime nines converter](https://powertraces.com/tools/uptime-nines.md): Downtime to availability and back, per day, month and year. - [Composite SLA calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/composite-sla.md): The real availability of services that depend on each other. - [Latency percentile calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/latency-percentiles.md): Paste durations and get p50, p90, p95, p99 and a histogram. - [Apdex score calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/apdex.md): User satisfaction from response times and a target threshold. - [Downtime cost calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/downtime-cost.md): What an outage or a slow checkout costs per minute. - [MTTR, MTTD & MTBF calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/mttr-mttd-mtbf.md): Incident timings into the numbers your reviews track. - [Traceparent parser & generator](https://powertraces.com/tools/traceparent.md): Read, validate and create W3C traceparent and tracestate headers. - [OpenTelemetry setup generator](https://powertraces.com/tools/opentelemetry-setup.md): Install steps, environment variables and code for your stack. - [Collector config builder](https://powertraces.com/tools/collector-config.md): Build an OpenTelemetry Collector YAML from receivers to exporters. - [OTLP JSON validator](https://powertraces.com/tools/otlp-json-validator.md): Check an OTLP payload and see its spans, logs or metrics. - [Semantic conventions lookup](https://powertraces.com/tools/semantic-conventions.md): Find the standard attribute name for what you want to record. - [Trace & span ID generator](https://powertraces.com/tools/trace-span-ids.md): Valid random trace IDs and span IDs for tests and fixtures. - [Sampling calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/sampling.md): How much you keep and save at a given sampling rate. - [Baggage header tool](https://powertraces.com/tools/baggage.md): Encode and decode W3C baggage, with size limits checked. - [Speed vs revenue calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/speed-vs-revenue.md): What each extra 100 ms of page or checkout time costs in conversions. - [Observability ROI calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/observability-roi.md): Hours and revenue saved by finding and fixing problems faster. - [SLA credit calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/sla-credits.md): Service credits you owe, or are owed, after a breach. - [Funnel drop-off calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/funnel-drop-off.md): Where customers leave each step, and what recovering them is worth. - [A/B test significance calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/ab-test-significance.md): Whether a change really moved conversion, with sample sizes. - [SaaS metrics calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/saas-metrics.md): MRR, churn, LTV, CAC and payback from a few numbers. - [Cloud cost estimator](https://powertraces.com/tools/cloud-cost.md): Monthly compute, storage and transfer for a workload. - [On-call cost calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/on-call-cost.md): Pager load, hours and payments across a rotation. - [Churn from errors estimator](https://powertraces.com/tools/churn-from-errors.md): Customers likely lost to failed sessions, and their value. - [Build vs buy calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/build-vs-buy.md): Running your own observability stack against a service, over three years. - [Telemetry cost estimator](https://powertraces.com/tools/telemetry-cost.md): Daily volume, storage and the plan that fits, from your traffic. - [Log volume estimator](https://powertraces.com/tools/log-volume.md): Log lines and sizes into GB per day and per month. - [Metric cardinality calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/metric-cardinality.md): How many series your labels really create. - [Retention & storage calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/retention-storage.md): Disk needed for a retention period, with compression. - [Data transfer estimator](https://powertraces.com/tools/data-transfer.md): Bandwidth and egress for sending telemetry out. - [Log pattern tester](https://powertraces.com/tools/log-pattern-tester.md): Test parsing patterns against real log lines and see the fields. - [JSON formatter & validator](https://powertraces.com/tools/json-formatter.md): Pretty-print, minify and find the error in JSON. - [Timestamp converter](https://powertraces.com/tools/timestamp-converter.md): Unix seconds, milliseconds and nanoseconds to dates, any time zone. - [Duration converter](https://powertraces.com/tools/duration-converter.md): Nanoseconds to hours, and ISO 8601 durations explained. - [Stack trace formatter](https://powertraces.com/tools/stack-trace-formatter.md): Make a one-line stack trace readable again. - [HTTP status code reference](https://powertraces.com/tools/http-status-codes.md): Every status code, what it means and when to retry. - [User-agent parser](https://powertraces.com/tools/user-agent-parser.md): Browser, OS and device from a user-agent string. - [Regex tester](https://powertraces.com/tools/regex-tester.md): Test patterns live with matches, groups and a plain-language explanation. - [Diff checker](https://powertraces.com/tools/diff-checker.md): Compare two texts or JSON documents side by side. - [YAML ⇄ JSON converter](https://powertraces.com/tools/yaml-json.md): Convert both ways and find the line that breaks. - [cURL to code converter](https://powertraces.com/tools/curl-to-code.md): Turn a cURL command into C#, JavaScript, Python or Go. - [SQL formatter](https://powertraces.com/tools/sql-formatter.md): Format and read long queries, ClickHouse and Postgres included. - [CIDR & subnet calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/cidr-subnet.md): Address ranges, masks and host counts. - [Capacity planner](https://powertraces.com/tools/capacity-planner.md): Instances, threads and pool sizes from traffic and latency, using Little’s law. - [Load test planner](https://powertraces.com/tools/load-test-planner.md): Virtual users and ramp-up for a target requests per second. - [Kubernetes resources calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/kubernetes-resources.md): Requests, limits and nodes for your pods. - [Semantic version checker](https://powertraces.com/tools/semver-checker.md): Test versions against ranges like ^1.2 and ~3.0. - [Environment file checker](https://powertraces.com/tools/env-file-checker.md): Find duplicates, missing values and secrets in a .env file. - [Unit converter for engineers](https://powertraces.com/tools/unit-converter.md): Bytes to GiB, bits per second, and rates per minute or hour. - [JWT decoder](https://powertraces.com/tools/jwt-decoder.md): Read a token’s header, claims and expiry without sending it anywhere. - [Hash generator](https://powertraces.com/tools/hash-generator.md): SHA-256, SHA-1 and MD5 of text, computed locally. - [Base64 & URL encoder](https://powertraces.com/tools/base64-url.md): Encode and decode Base64, Base64URL and URL text. - [UUID & ULID tool](https://powertraces.com/tools/uuid-ulid.md): Generate UUIDv4, UUIDv7 and ULIDs, and read the time inside. - [Core Web Vitals checker](https://powertraces.com/tools/core-web-vitals.md): Grade LCP, INP and CLS against Google’s thresholds. - [Cron expression explainer](https://powertraces.com/tools/cron-explainer.md): A cron schedule in plain words, with its next runs. - [Rate limit calculator](https://powertraces.com/tools/rate-limit.md): Requests per window, burst sizes and retry timing. - [Timeout & retry planner](https://powertraces.com/tools/timeout-retry.md): Timeouts and backoff that add up across a call chain. ## Optional - [Privacy](https://powertraces.com/privacy.md) - [Terms](https://powertraces.com/terms.md) - [RSS](https://powertraces.com/blog/rss.xml)