Documentation for automated readers
A curated documentation index is available at: https://grafana.com/llms.txt
A complete documentation index is available at: https://grafana.com/llms-full.txt
These indexes can help with page discovery before fetching individual documents.
This page is also available in Markdown, which may be easier for automated readers and AI tools to parse than HTML. The Markdown version is available at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted.md, or by sending Accept: text/markdown to https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/. For broader documentation discovery, the curated index is available at https://grafana.com/llms.txt and the complete index is available at https://grafana.com/llms-full.txt.
Connect to data sources
This section includes the following topics:
- Get started with an existing data source
- Data sources
- Private data source connect (PDC)
- 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:
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