> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Configuring observability

> Enable the Grafana OTEL LGTM stack — Loki, Tempo, Mimir, and Grafana — to collect logs, traces, and metrics from your Midaz deployment.

The Midaz chart includes an optional observability stack based on [Grafana OTEL LGTM](https://github.com/grafana/docker-otel-lgtm) — a pre-configured bundle that provides **Loki** for log aggregation, **Grafana** for dashboards, **Tempo** for distributed traces, and **Mimir** for metrics. When enabled (`grafana.enabled: true`), this stack deploys alongside Midaz and automatically collects telemetry from all services.

## Accessing the Grafana dashboard

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You can access the Grafana dashboard using one of two options:

## Local access

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To access the dashboard locally run:

```bash theme={null}
kubectl port-forward svc/midaz-grafana 3000:3000 -n midaz
```

Then use [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) to open the dashboard.

## Ingress access

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To expose Grafana within your cluster or private network via DNS, enable and configure Ingress like this:

```yaml theme={null}
grafana:
  enabled: true
  name: grafana
  ingress:
    enabled: true
    className: "nginx"
    annotations:
      nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
    hosts:
      - host: "midaz-otel.example.com"
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
    tls: []
```

## Disabling observability

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You can disable the observability stack entirely by setting:

```yaml theme={null}
grafana:
  enabled: false
```

## Default dashboards

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The default installation provides the Grafana UI with access to Loki, Tempo, and Mimir data sources. No pre-built dashboards are included — you can import Lerian's recommended dashboards or create your own based on the available telemetry data.

## Connecting external OTEL collectors

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For production deployments, use the `otel-collector-lerian` chart to route telemetry to your existing observability infrastructure (Datadog, New Relic, Elastic, etc.). This chart is disabled by default. To enable it:

```yaml theme={null}
otel-collector-lerian:
  enabled: true
```

For full configuration options, see [Infrastructure Helm charts](/en/platform/helm/infrastructure/infrastructure-helm).