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Introduction to Grafana Cloud
This section contains information that is foundational to being successful with Grafana Cloud or that is useful to beginners trying to understand the basics, such as terminology, introduction to observability data types, and support options.
This section includes the following topics:
- What is observability?
- What is Prometheus?
- Metrics and visualizations
- Visualize existing observability data
- Store, query, and alert on data
- Dashboard overview
- Introduction to time series
- Time series dimensions
- Histograms and heatmaps
- Find and use dashboards
- Find and use plugins
For a list of terms and their meanings, refer to Glossary of terms.
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