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# Introduction

> Deploy, manage, and monitor your LiveKit applications with a comprehensive suite of tools and flexible hosting options.

## Overview

LiveKit provides tools for deploying, managing, and monitoring your realtime apps in production. Whether you choose the fully managed LiveKit Cloud or deploy to custom environments, you have access to testing frameworks, observability tools, and deployment options that ensure your apps are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

Deploying with LiveKit means you can focus on building your app while LiveKit handles the complexity of WebRTC infrastructure, scaling, and global distribution. You can test and validate your agents, monitor their behavior in production, and deploy to the infrastructure that best fits your needs.

## Key concepts

Understand these core concepts to deploy and manage effective LiveKit applications.

### Observability

Monitor and analyze your agent's behavior with comprehensive observability tools. Use built-in LiveKit Cloud insights to view transcripts, traces, logs, and audio recordings, or collect custom data with data hooks for integration with external systems.

- **[Observability overview](https://docs.livekit.io/deploy/observability.md)**: Learn how to monitor and analyze your agents with observability tools.

### Agent deployment

Deploy your agents to LiveKit Cloud to run them on LiveKit's global network and infrastructure. LiveKit Cloud provides automatic scaling and load balancing, ensuring capacity for new sessions up to the limits of your plan.

- **[Deploying agents overview](https://docs.livekit.io/deploy/agents.md)**: Learn how to deploy your agents to LiveKit Cloud.

## Getting started

Choose your deployment path to get started:

- **[Deploy agents to LiveKit Cloud](https://docs.livekit.io/deploy/agents.md)**: Deploy your agents to LiveKit Cloud's fully managed infrastructure.

- **[Monitor your agents](https://docs.livekit.io/deploy/observability.md)**: Set up observability to monitor and analyze your agent sessions.

## Additional resources

For complete deployment documentation, API references, and advanced topics, see the [Reference](https://docs.livekit.io/reference.md) section.

- **[Agent CLI reference](https://docs.livekit.io/reference/other/agent-cli.md)**: Complete CLI reference for deploying agents to LiveKit Cloud.

- **[Server APIs](https://docs.livekit.io/reference.md#server-apis)**: API reference for managing LiveKit servers and deployments.

- **[Events and error handling](https://docs.livekit.io/reference/other/events.md)**: Learn about LiveKit events and how to handle errors in your deployments.

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