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title: "Fleet Management guides | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn how to use Grafana Fleet Management to optimize for your bespoke observability setup"
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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).

# Fleet Management guides

This section provides practical steps for real-world situations to help you move beyond basic Grafana Fleet Management setup to solve more complex observability challenges.

It includes the following types of documentation.

## Scenarios

Walk you through an end-to-end workflow to solve a specific, real-world problem. These guides are detailed and provide a narrative-driven approach to using Fleet Management in a particular context.

## Examples

Provide self-contained, concrete illustrations of concepts, configurations, or pieces of code. Unlike scenarios, which teach a process, examples offer a practical, working model that you can often adapt for your own use.

## Best practices

Provide recommendations, guidelines, and expert advice for using Fleet Management effectively and efficiently. They help you optimize your configuration and follow established architectural principles.

## Choose your goal

The Fleet Management guides are organized around the goals you might have for your observability setup. Choose a goal to get started.

- [Increase efficiency with reusable configuration pipelines](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/fleet-management/manage-fleet/guides/increase-efficiency/)  
  Learn how to make your collector configurations more efficient with reusable pipelines
- [Manage telemetry costs and usage](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/fleet-management/manage-fleet/guides/manage-costs/)  
  Learn how to estimate costs, control expensive telemetry collection, and triage unexpected spikes
- [Minimize risk by deploying configuration pipelines in stages](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/fleet-management/manage-fleet/guides/minimize-risk/)  
  Learn how to minimize the risk of configuration changes with staged deployments
- [Maximize security of collector deployments with scalable components](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/fleet-management/manage-fleet/guides/maximize-security/)  
  Learn how to protect your collector deployments with secret rotation