---
title: "STACKIT Observability"
description: "Fully managed telemetry platform combining Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Thanos, and Grafana for metrics, logs, and traces."
scfAsset:
  category: "service"
  managed: true
  marketplaceUrl: "https://marketplace.stackit.cloud/en/products"
  tags: ["Observability", "Prometheus", "Grafana", "Loki", "Metrics"]
  maintainers:
    - user: "alexander.gabert"
source_url: "https://framework.stackit.cloud/architecture/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-service-observability/"
source_file: "docs/architecture/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-service-observability.mdx"
---

STACKIT Observability provides a managed telemetry stack for enterprise monitoring.

## Service Overview
- **Unified Telemetry Stack**: Integrated Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Thanos, and Grafana in a single managed service.
- **Long-Term Retention**: Metrics retention up to 26 months powered by Thanos backend storage.
- **Open Standards**: Fully compatible with OpenTelemetry (OTLP) collectors and OpenMetrics endpoints.

## Technical Details
- **Alerting**: Integrated Alertmanager supporting email and webhook notifications (Slack, PagerDuty).
- **Security**: Endpoint security guarded via IPv4 CIDR allowlists and TLS transport encryption.

## Retention

The values below come from the STACKIT documentation and update themselves.

> From the STACKIT docs: [Service plans of STACKIT Observability › Retention and data formats](https://docs.stackit.cloud/products/logging-and-monitoring/observability/reference/service-plans-observability/#retention-and-data-formats) (Source updated 06.07.2026, copied 05.10.2026)

STACKIT Observability uses open standards for telemetry collection.  
 All metrics, logs and traces must be transmitted in **OpenTelemetry** or **OpenMetrics** format.

### Metrics

- Default retention: **90 days**
- Configurable up to **780 days (26 months)**
- Retention can be changed in the **Observability Service Dashboard** or via the **Observability API**

### Logs and Traces

- Default retention: **5 days**
- Configurable up to **30 days**
- Retention can be adjusted via the **Observability API**

## Limitations & Constraints
- **Managed Grafana Plugins**: Installing unverified custom third-party Grafana plugins is unsupported.

<LinkCard title="STACKIT Observability Documentation" href="https://docs.stackit.cloud" />