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title: "Guides | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Solve complex observability problems with Adaptive Traces guides. Find end-to-end scenarios, practical examples, and expert best practices to get the most out of your data."
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# Guides

Guides in the Adaptive Traces documentation provide in-depth information and practical steps for real-world situations to help you move beyond basic setup and use and onto solving more complex challenges.

This section includes the following types of documentation.

## Scenarios

Walks you through an end-to-end workflow to solve a specific, real-world problem. These guides are detailed and provide a narrative-driven approach to using Adaptive Traces in a particular context.

## Examples

Provides self-contained, concrete illustrations of concepts, configurations, or pieces of code. Unlike scenarios, which teach a process, examples offer a practical, working model that you can often adapt for your own use.

## Best practices

Provides recommendations, guidelines, and expert advice for using Adaptive Traces effectively and efficiently. They help you optimize your configuration and follow established architectural principles.