Get started with Grafana Cloud

You have several ways to get started with Grafana Cloud, but the first step is to sign up for an account.

Obtain an account

Determine whether you want your data to be managed outside of Grafana Cloud, or sent to and managed in Grafana Cloud.

Connect your externally managed data to Grafana Cloud with a data source, and create a dashboard to visualize your data.

Send data to Grafana Cloud using:

The Instrumentation Hub to set up Kubernetes Monitoring and Application monitoring for a Linux/Kubernetes platform
Configuration processes for:
- Kubernetes Monitoring for more advanced Kubernetes operators wanting detailed control over deployed resources
- Cloud Provider Observability
- Application Observability
- Database Observability
- Alerts and IRM
- Frontend Observability
An integration for common targets such as Linux hosts, Kubernetes clusters, or Nginx servers
Alternative methods