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Technical documentation
Our core stack
Unlock the full potential of your data with our platform, where you can query and visualize metrics, logs, and traces to gain a deeper understanding of your system’s performance and behavior.
Grafana
Query, visualize, and understand your data.
Metrics
Store and query raw, unsampled metrics for all your applications and infrastructure.
Logs
Store and query logs from all your applications and infrastructure.
Traces
Visualize the lifecycle of a request as it passes through a set of applications.
Observability, AI, testing, and Incident Response Management (IRM)
Comprehensive documentation that covers the entire lifecycle, from testing and instrumentation to AI-powered observability and incident response management, aimed to help you minimize mean time to resolution.
Observability
Docs that support your infrastructure and application observability needs.
AI and Machine Learning
Built-in AI and machine learning features that help you get more out of your observability data.
Alerting and Incident Response (IRM)
Enable your teams to detect, respond to, and learn from incidents.
Performance and Testing
Our load testing tools make performance testing easy and productive for engineering teams.
Learning Hub
New to Grafana Cloud and unsure where to begin? Start with recommended learning journeys, then follow focused learning paths or dive into self-paced courses. Go to the Learning Hub.
Learning paths
Short, focused paths you can follow independently or as part of a recommended journey.
Get started with Grafana Cloud
Monitor a Linux server in Grafana Cloud
Connect to a Prometheus data source in Grafana Cloud
Explore data using Metrics Drilldown
Visualize metrics in a Grafana Cloud dashboard
Learning journeys
Deepen your technical knowledge with self-paced sections.
Intro to Cloud Provider Observability
Docs decision support
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Which Grafana is right for me?
Connect and visualize data
Discover the various methods for sending or connecting data to Grafana Cloud. Once your data is in place, you can visualize it to gain valuable insights that help you tackle real-world challenges.
Instrument and send data
Set up your infrastructure and applications to transmit telemetry data to Grafana Cloud.
Google Private Service Connect
Visualize data
Use visualizations to gain actionable insight into your telemetry data.
Open source projects from Grafana Labs
At Grafana Labs, open source continues to be our driving force as we work to develop and evolve our core OSS tools and technologies.
Grafana Cloud account management
At Grafana Labs, open source continues to be our driving force as we work to develop and evolve our core OSS tools and technologies.
Get started with Grafana Cloud
Resources
Consult the following resources, as necessary.