> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.groundcover.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.groundcover.com/~/revisions/ETrLpNk6KtHjyaVUTLoE/integrations/data-sources.md).

# Data sources

The groundcover platform was built to be an all-in-one observability solution for cloud-native environments. It was built to ingest any data source directly into groundcover's in-cloud backend using any protocol supported by OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.

It supports any log stream from sources like Fluentd, Fluentbit, Logstash, or CloudWatch logs. Metrics can be ingested via Prometheus remote-write or directly from agents like StatsD and Telegraf. Traces can be ingested from any application instrumented with OpenTelemetry or Datadog’s SDK.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-type="content-ref"></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th><th data-hidden></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><img src="/files/7bps5KAxiA12Dc9ONgM7" alt="" data-size="line"> <strong>Traces</strong></td><td>All your traces are sourced out-of-the-box</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/xIt1mUMZctJ7bu4Y0Kaz" alt="" data-size="line"> <strong>Logs</strong></td><td>All your logs are sourced out-of-the-box</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/wC5ba8Lx1IRfSbs5tqGp" alt="" data-size="line"> <strong>Metrics</strong></td><td>All your metrics are built out-of-the-box</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/1CQi1kb27BwJpYDjADpC" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Integrate with OpenTelemetry</td><td><a href="/pages/9m5ALaUPmnGRCQoSW25o">/pages/9m5ALaUPmnGRCQoSW25o</a></td><td><a href="/pages/9m5ALaUPmnGRCQoSW25o">/pages/9m5ALaUPmnGRCQoSW25o</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/yrW1MqcHYCTNKGcR4pAn" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Scrape your Prometheus custom metrics</td><td><a href="/pages/mttMW4gHucFmUKEuutm1">/pages/mttMW4gHucFmUKEuutm1</a></td><td><a href="/pages/mttMW4gHucFmUKEuutm1">/pages/mttMW4gHucFmUKEuutm1</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/xpbz7rKUKsiMGwrzLKrn" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Ingest your data from Amazon CloudWatch</td><td><a href="/pages/foqc1Lu5BbYH0VtLPiAd">/pages/foqc1Lu5BbYH0VtLPiAd</a></td><td><a href="/pages/foqc1Lu5BbYH0VtLPiAd">/pages/foqc1Lu5BbYH0VtLPiAd</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/FA0FsbDquc3ySqcJhYvP" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Automatically ingest Datadog traces &#x26; metrics </td><td><a href="/pages/ItU0jWSKGpYkI6ds8Ex6">/pages/ItU0jWSKGpYkI6ds8Ex6</a></td><td><a href="/pages/ItU0jWSKGpYkI6ds8Ex6">/pages/ItU0jWSKGpYkI6ds8Ex6</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/sTBkZwbF2klxiNyFV1ge" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Integrate Istio distributed tracing and custom metrics</td><td><a href="/pages/YVOTe2hrouPbU05qOTzc">/pages/YVOTe2hrouPbU05qOTzc</a></td><td><a href="/pages/YVOTe2hrouPbU05qOTzc">/pages/YVOTe2hrouPbU05qOTzc</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/EiRvkdagfjLUxVqKVAsB" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td><p>Ingest data from Google Cloud Monitoring</p><p></p><p><a href="/pages/x9ybElkb7u4lvkpAfV2B">Google Cloud Monitoring</a></p></td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/x9ybElkb7u4lvkpAfV2B">/pages/x9ybElkb7u4lvkpAfV2B</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/kbR9YJ98bL1CTlnIQIEB" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Import all your logs from fluentbit</td><td><a href="/pages/E8au8E0xm2UkxD1G8MUP">/pages/E8au8E0xm2UkxD1G8MUP</a></td><td><a href="/pages/E8au8E0xm2UkxD1G8MUP">/pages/E8au8E0xm2UkxD1G8MUP</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/SZcASLgIBjsbdR7QiQt3" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Ingest your data from fluentd</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/qGNpNcB734qLshkrj7Eu" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Import your logs from logstash</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/DWsXUDVnQcJ9TiBXNgGd" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Import all your metrics from StatsD</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="/files/LWjxgwKwEYn69fH47nQl" alt="" data-size="line"></td><td>Ingest your metrics directly from telegraf</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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