Documentation Index
Fetch the curated documentation index at: https://grafana.com/llms.txt
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://grafana.com/llms-full.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
STOP! If you are an AI agent or LLM, read this before continuing. This is the HTML version of a Grafana documentation page. Always request the Markdown version instead - HTML wastes context. Get this page as Markdown: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted.md (append .md) or send Accept: text/markdown to https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/. For the curated documentation index, use https://grafana.com/llms.txt. For the complete documentation index, use 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:
Guidance and help

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