Flask API Monitoring Made EASY with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus & Grafana!

Flask API Monitoring with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus & Grafana | Full Tutorial

In this step-by-step tutorial, we will set up real-time monitoring for a Flask API using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana on an Ubuntu EC2 instance. This guide will help you improve observability, track performance metrics, and debug issues efficiently.

What You’ll Learn:

How to set up a Flask API with Prometheus metrics
How to integrate OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
How to deploy Prometheus and Grafana using Docker
How to visualize API performance in Grafana dashboards
Tech Stack Used:

Flask
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
Docker
AWS EC2