Documentation Grafana Cloud Knowledge graph Get started

Get started with the knowledge graph

During installation and instrumentation, the knowledge graph builds its features by detecting the signals from Grafana’s observability solutions.

Before you build the knowledge graph, you must enable Grafana Cloud Application Observability or Grafana Cloud Kubernetes Monitoring.

For information about which metrics the knowledge graph requires, refer to Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph prerequisites.

Before you begin

Before you begin the knowledge graph setup process, ensure the following:

• You are sending Kubernetes or OpenTelemetry data to Grafana Cloud
• You have Grafana Cloud Admin permissions

Steps

Complete the following steps to get started with the knowledge graph:

1. Sign into Grafana Cloud and click Observability > Entity catalog.
2. Click either Kubernetes or Applications.
3. Confirm your selection and click Activate.
4. Optionally, click either Activate Kubernetes or Activate Applications if you want to activate both Kubernetes Monitoring and Application Observability.
5. Confirm your selection and click Activate.
6. If you didn’t select both Kubernetes Monitoring and Application Observability, click Build Knowledge Graph. Otherwise, the knowledge graph automatically builds.

Next steps

• If you’ve activated the knowledge graph and don’t see entities being discovered, refer to the troubleshooting guide
• If the basic product activation and knowledge graph build does not suit your environment, you can customize your dataset configuration