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 your telemetry data to Grafana Cloud. To learn more, refer to Data managed in Grafana Cloud.