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title: "Manage your Grafana Cloud Stack | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn how to create, add labels, and delete Grafana Cloud Stacks"
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# Manage your Grafana Cloud Stack

You can use the Grafana Cloud Portal to create, modify, and delete Grafana Cloud Stacks. In addition, you can add labels to stacks.

## Create a new stack

Before creating a new stack, refer to [stack architecture guidance](/docs/grafana-cloud/security-and-account-management/cloud-stacks/stack-architecture-guidance/) to determine whether this is the right choice for you.

If your plan allows multiple Grafana Cloud stacks, you may create separate stacks for organizing environments by team, project, or state such as production, development, or staging. Each Grafana Cloud stack is completely isolated from other stacks on your account. For details about how many stacks your plan allows, refer to the Grafana Cloud [key features](/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/understand-grafana-cloud-features/#key-features) page.

To create a new Grafana Cloud stack, follow these steps:

1. Select **Add Stack** on the left side menu of the Cloud Portal under the **Grafana Cloud** section.
2. Enter a unique name for the new stack, using only lowercase letters and numbers, no dots, dashes, underscores, or spaces. Stack names must begin with a letter.
3. Select the [region](/docs/grafana-cloud/account-management/regional-availability/) where you want to create your stack.
4. Optionally, provide a description for the new stack.
5. Allow a few moments for the new stack to be created.

There are no costs for creating a new stack. However, your plan’s included data ingestion is shared across all stacks. [Active users](/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/understand-your-invoice/#billing-for-active-users) are only billed once per calendar month across all stacks in your account.

## Create stack labels

You can apply labels to a Grafana Cloud Stack to create user-defined tags. You can use these tags for tracking resource usage per stack, to create more specific queries against the `grafanacloud-usage` data source, or for other organizational goals. For more information about creating usage attribution reports, refer to [Generate usage attribution reports](/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/generate-usage-attribution-report/).

To create stack labels:

1. Select the stack name from your account portal **Overview** menu on the left side of the page.
2. Click on the **Update labels** button located near the top of the stack details.
3. Enter a label key using any combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, dashes, or periods. For example, the key value “team” can be used for tracking stacks associated with a team.
4. Enter a value that you would like associated with the label key name. Use any combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, dashes, or periods. For example, to track by team, an example value might be “ops” for an Operations team.
5. After the label key and value pair have been created, click on the **Add label** button to add the new label.
6. Click on **Save labels** for the new label to be created.

## Rename a stack

You can rename a Grafana Cloud stack by taking the following steps:

1. Log in to your Grafana Cloud account.
2. Select your organization from the organization drop-down menu.
3. In the **Stacks** section, click **Details** next to the stack that you want to update.
4. Update the **Organization** name field.
5. Click **Details** under Grafana.
6. Click **Update Instance**.
7. Update the **Instance URL**. The part between “https://” and “.grafana.net” represents the stack name.
8. Click **Update**.

## Delete a stack

You can delete a Grafana Cloud stack using the following steps.

> Warning
> 
> When you delete a stack, it permanently removes a stack. This action can’t be reversed.

1. Log in to your Grafana Cloud account.
2. Select your organization from the organization drop-down menu.
3. In the **Stacks** section, click **Details** next to the stack that you want to update.
4. Select **Delete Stack**, the red trash can icon on the right.
5. Enter the name of the stack to confirm and select **Delete**.