Introduction to Grafana Cloud
With Grafana Cloud, you can enable observability without the overhead of building and maintaining your own stack. This section covers the basics of observability concepts and terminology.
What is observability?
A basic overview of observability terms and concepts as well as an introduction to Prometheus.
Also refer to a glossary list of terms.
Metrics and visualization
A brief introduction to visualizing metrics.
Visualize existing observability data
Use Grafana Cloud to visualize your existing data sources that run in your environment.
Store, query, and alert on data
How to send data to Grafana Cloud from existing sources or start from scratch using Grafana Alloy, exporters, and integrations.
Dashboard overview
A basic overview of how dashboards work.
Histograms and heatmaps
A brief introduction to visualization techniques such as histograms and heatmaps.
Find and use dashboards
How to import, export, create, and configure dashboards.
Find and use plugins
How to find and install a plugin to visualize a data source or application.
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