Sightglass is one container plus explicit SDK instrumentation for the operations you care about. Start with the quickstart, then choose the adapter for your framework.
Run Sightglass and observe one important operation in a few minutes.
Understand operations, occurrences, context, events, steps, dependencies, and meters.
Instrument Express, tsoa, Fastify, NestJS, Next.js Route Handlers, and Prisma.
Configure delivery, bounds, durability, fetch enrichment, health samples, and diagnostics.
Reference the versioned ingestion, dashboard, trace, usage, and health endpoints.
Understand protocol v1 envelopes, validation, limits, and trace correlation.
Deploy securely, manage access, receive alerts, back up SQLite, restore safely, and upgrade.
See how explicit application instrumentation reaches the single-process SQLite server.
Interpret and reproduce Sightglass ingestion, query, and storage measurements.
Compare Sightglass with ten broader observability products using narrow, explicit definitions.