Grafana Cloud fundamentals
This section contains information that is foundational to being successful with Grafana Cloud or that is useful to beginners trying to understand terminology, billing, support options, and so on.
The first three give high-level descriptions of the three main ways to get up and running with Grafana Cloud. These are followed useful information you can browse as needed.
- Use agent-based monitoring
- Ship Metrics and Logs
- User account roles and permissions
- Visualize Existing Data
- Find and use dashboards
- Find and use plugins
- What is observability?
- What are metrics and visualizations?
- What are data sources?
- What is the Cloud Portal?
- Support options
- Billing and usage
- Active series and DPM
Note: We have a glossary of terms that may be new to you as you begin.
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