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title: "Grafana Cloud documentation | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "The official managed platform for Grafana dashboards, Prometheus/Graphite Metrics and Loki Logs."
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# Grafana Cloud documentation

The official managed platform for Grafana dashboards, Prometheus/Graphite Metrics and Loki Logs.

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## Overview

Grafana Cloud is a highly available, performant, and scalable [observability](/docs/grafana-cloud/introduction/what-is-observability/) platform for your applications and infrastructure. It provides a centralized view over all of your observability data, whether the data lives in Grafana Cloud Metrics services or in your own bare-metal and cloud environments. With native support for many popular data sources such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch, and Amazon CloudWatch, all you have to do to begin creating dashboards and querying metrics data is to configure data sources in Grafana Cloud.

To get started with a forever free Grafana Cloud account, [create a Grafana Cloud account](/docs/grafana-cloud/get-started/create-account/).

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## Explore

[What's new  
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Grafana Cloud is constantly evolving. Check out What’s new to keep up-to-date on new features and improvements.](/docs/grafana-cloud/whats-new/)

[Get started with Grafana Cloud  
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Discover how to easily begin using Grafana Cloud. You can also set up a demo account, import sample data, and explore a range of predefined dashboards.](/docs/grafana-cloud/get-started/)

[Introduction  
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If you are new to Grafana Cloud and observability, get to know the Grafana Cloud platform and learn key observability concepts.](/docs/grafana-cloud/introduction/)

[Security and account management  
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Admins can create and manage stacks, send data from local devices and services to Grafana Cloud, provision users, and perform additional tasks. Explore these topics to learn more about Grafana Cloud account management.](/docs/grafana-cloud/security-and-account-management/)

[AI and machine learning  
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Use Grafana Cloud’s AI and machine learning features to enhance observability, automate insights, and accelerate troubleshooting. Explore tools for anomaly detection, forecasting, and intelligent data analysis to help you proactively monitor and optimize your systems.](/docs/grafana-cloud/machine-learning/)

[Alerts & IRM  
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Use Grafana Cloud Alerting, Incident Response & Management (IRM), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to detect issues, notify your team, respond to incidents, and monitor service reliability. Set up alerts, manage on-call schedules, implement a consistent incident response process, and track SLOs to ensure your services meet performance and availability targets.](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/)

[Connect to data source  
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Use Grafana data sources to consolidate data from various platforms and vendors. For example, you can connect to external sources like self-hosted Prometheus environments, MongoDB databases for dashboard creation, and REST API endpoints.](/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/)

[Cost management and billing  
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Administrators have centralized tools to effectively manage, control, and optimize observability spending. Use these tools for tasks like monitoring expenses, identifying cost ownership, minimizing invoices, and avoiding unexpected overages.](/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/)

[Developer resources  
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Explore developer-focused documentation, such as the Grafana HTTP API reference and guides, for managing your Grafana Cloud stacks and applications using an infrastructure-as-code provisioning tool.](/docs/grafana-cloud/developer-resources/)

[Instrument and send data  
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Discover the different methods available for instrumenting and sending data to Grafana Cloud. Options include using integrations, connecting to data sources, and sending data from existing observability solutions to Grafana Cloud.](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/)

[Monitor applications  
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Monitor and analyze the performance of your applications by tracking user journeys, user experience events, application load and response times, and correlating metrics, logs, traces, and profiles to quickly detect, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across your entire stack.](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/)

[Monitor infrastructure  
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Send data to Grafana Cloud to monitor the health and performance of infrastructure services like operating systems, databases, and cloud applications. Examples include monitoring Kubernetes fleet performance, sending metrics from various sources like Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB, and DataDog, and tracking server resource usage such as CPU, memory, and disk I/O.](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/)

[Testing and synthetics  
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Use Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring and Performance testing tools to proactively test production and pre-production environments, preventing errors and improving application reliability, performance, and availability.](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/)

[Visualize data  
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Use the visualizations feature in Grafana Cloud to create informative and visually appealing representations of your data. With a variety of visualization options to choose from, you can customize dashboards to effectively analyze your data and make data-driven decisions with ease.](/docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/)