Getting Started
This tutorial shows how to start using Progress® Observability Platform and capture your first traces.
Step 1: Create Your Account
Navigate to Progress Observability Platform and follow the instructions to create an account. Progress Observability Platform uses your Telerik account for sign-in.
Verify your email by using the link sent during registration. If you do not verify your email, the platform opens in read-only mode.
Step 2: Create an Integration Key
Your application authenticates to the collector with an Integration key (it starts with ac_p_).
In the platform, go to API Keys and click Create API Key.
Name it after the environment it serves (for example dev-laptop).
Copy the key — it is shown only once — and set it in your shell or .env:
export OBSERVABILITY_API_KEY="ac_p_..."This is not the MCP key (acm_...).
The MCP key is read-only and belongs to AI clients, not to your application. A key of the wrong type fails silently: the app starts and runs, but no traces arrive.
Step 3: Choose Your Integration
Use the observability-skills repository and run the instrument-agent skill in your coding agent.
Copy and paste this prompt:
Install https://github.com/telerik/observability-skills from GitHub, use instrument-agent to add tracing to this app.The instrumented app needs your Integration key at runtime. Set it as
OBSERVABILITY_API_KEYin your shell or.envbefore running — the skill reads it from the environment and will never ask you to paste a key into the chat.
Pick your integration:
Frameworks: Microsoft.Extensions.AI · Microsoft Agent Framework · CrewAI · LangChain · Agno · AWS Strands · Burr · Haystack · LiteLLM · LlamaIndex · OpenAI Agents
LLM providers: OpenAI · Cohere · Google Gemini · Google Vertex AI · Groq · Aleph Alpha · Amazon Bedrock · Amazon SageMaker · Anthropic · Azure OpenAI · Hugging Face Transformers · IBM watsonx · Mistral AI · Ollama · Replicate · Together AI · WRITER