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title: "Connect to data sources | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Includes information about how to use Grafana to connect to sources of data that exist outside Grafana Cloud."
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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).

# Connect to data sources

This section includes the following topics:

- [Get started with an existing data source](/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/existing-datasource/)
- [Data sources](/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/data-sources/)
- [Private data source connect (PDC)](/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/private-data-source-connect/)
- [Multi-stack data sources](/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/multi-stack-data-sources/)

Watch this video to start adding data sources to Grafana.

You can also explore Grafana Cloud by importing example data sources, allowing you to build dashboards without having to instrument your own application:

- [Importing example data](../get-started/)

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