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title: "Set up your account | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Create your Grafana Cloud account, connect or send data, and instrument your services."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Set up your account

Get your Grafana Cloud account ready: create an account, connect or send your data, and use the Instrumentation Hub to instrument your services.

## Explore

[Create an account  
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Sign up for a Grafana Cloud account. You can start with a forever-free account and upgrade at any time.](/docs/grafana-cloud/learn-and-build/get-started/set-up-your-account/create-account/)

[Connect or send data  
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Decide whether to connect your externally managed data to Grafana Cloud with a data source, or send your telemetry data to Grafana Cloud. Explore demo data to get started quickly.](/docs/grafana-cloud/learn-and-build/get-started/set-up-your-account/connect-send/)

[Instrumentation Hub  
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Use the Instrumentation Hub to discover integrations and the fastest path to instrument and send data from your services.](/docs/grafana-cloud/learn-and-build/get-started/set-up-your-account/inst-hub-setup/)