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Onboard your collectors to Fleet Management

Learn how to onboard your existing collectors to Grafana Fleet Management so you can proactively manage your fleet and monitor your observability setup.

If you don’t have existing collectors ready for onboarding, you can install new instances with the help of Grafana Cloud:

• To start a new fleet, navigate to Connections > Collector Setup > Install to register your first collector.
• If you’ve already registered collectors, you can expand your fleet by clicking Add collector on the Inventory tab in the Fleet Management interface.

The following sections explain how to register existing collectors with Fleet Management.

• Onboard standalone Alloy collectors to Fleet Management
  Learn how to onboard standalone Alloy collectors to Grafana Fleet Management
• Onboard standalone OpenTelemetry Collectors to Fleet Management
  Learn how to onboard standalone OpenTelemetry Collectors to Grafana Fleet Management
• Onboard collectors deployed in Kubernetes to Fleet Management
  Learn how to onboard collectors deployed in Kubernetes to Grafana Fleet Management
• Troubleshoot onboarding issues
  Learn how to troubleshoot common onboarding issues in Grafana Fleet Management