How to properly add Grafana monitoring to a custom video editing app

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Hi everyone,

I’m building a custom video editor application similar to the link and I want to add performance monitoring using Grafana. From what I understand, Grafana doesn’t directly monitor an app. It needs metrics/logging data from the application itself. My questions are:

  • What’s the best way to structure logging/metrics for a video editing workflow (render time, export speed, timeline actions, etc.)?

  • Should I use Prometheus, Loki, or another backend for this type of app?

  • Any recommended patterns for tracking real-time rendering performance and bottlenecks?

  • How do people usually instrument media-heavy apps so Grafana dashboards stay meaningful and not overloaded?

I’m trying to design this properly from the start rather than patching it later, so any guidance or real-world examples would be really helpful.

Thanks!

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hello, your custom video editing is web based system applicatoin based??

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firstly it’ll be web based, later on will launch an application too but for now web based.