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Instrument and send data to Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud provides multiple pathways to ingest and manage telemetry data from your infrastructure and applications, including metrics, logs, traces, and profiles, as well as the comprehensive OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) for unified observability data collection.

You can use Grafana Alloy, a vendor neutral OpenTelemetry Collector distribution, to collect and process telemetry across complex environments. Fleet Management provides the ability to manage Alloy collectors.

You can also establish secure, private connectivity to Grafana Cloud from your AWS Virtual Private Cloud, Azure Virtual Network, or GCP Private Cloud without exposing traffic to the public internet.

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Connect or send data
Decide whether to connect externally managed data or send telemetry to Grafana Cloud.
Instrumentation Hub
Use the Instrumentation Hub to discover integrations and the fastest path to instrument and send data from your services.
Metrics
Learn how to send Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB, and Datadog metrics to Grafana Cloud Metrics.
Logs
Grafana supports Loki and all other log formats. You can use Grafana Alloy to send your logs. It can easily scale to multiple Loki instances and it’s easy to enable other, Alloy-driven features.
Traces
Grafana Cloud supports Tempo, and most other open source traces formats, including Jaeger, Zipkin, and OpenTelemetry. Learn how to use the trace storage and query engine to understand the flow of requests and data in your software systems and track down issues quickly.
Profiles
Grafana Cloud Profiles gathers detailed information about the performance of your application so that you can identify bottlenecks, optimize code, and improve the overall efficiency of your system.
OpenTelemetry Protocol
Learn how to use OpenTelemetry tools, APIs, and SDKs to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data and analyze your software’s performance and behavior.
Grafana Alloy
Grafana Alloy is a vendor-neutral distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Alloy offers native pipelines for OTel, Prometheus, Pyroscope, Loki, and many other metrics, logs, traces, and profile tools. Learn how to use Alloy to quickly find and process your data in complex environments.
Fleet Management
You can manage multiple collector deployments at scale at a centralized hub. Remotely configure and monitor the health of your Alloy collectors, and assign configurations to collectors based on their attributes.