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title: "Guides | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "This section provides a set of guides for useful alerting practices and recommendations"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Guides

Guides in the Grafana Alerting documentation provide best practices and practical recommendations to help you move from a basic alerting setup to real-world use cases.

These guides cover topics such as:

- [Best practices](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/guides/best-practices/)
- [Handle connectivity errors in alerts](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/guides/connectivity-errors/)
- [Handle missing data in Grafana Alerting](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/guides/missing-data/)
- [When SLOs reduce alert noise](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/guides/when-slos-reduce-alert-noise/)

For more hands-on examples, refer to [Examples](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/examples/) and [Tutorials](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/examples/tutorials/).