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title: "Set up Grafana | Grafana documentation"
description: "Includes topics for setting up a Grafana instance."
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# Set up Grafana

> You can use Grafana Cloud to avoid installing, maintaining, and scaling your own instance of Grafana. [Create a free account](/auth/sign-up/create-user?pg=docs-grafana-latest-setup-grafana) to get started, which includes free forever access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 500VUh k6 testing & more.

This section includes information that helps you get Grafana up and running.

- [Install Grafana](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/installation/)
- [Configure Grafana](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/)
- [Start the Grafana server](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/start-restart-grafana/)
- [Sign in to Grafana](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/sign-in-to-grafana/)
- [Configure security](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/configure-security/)
- [Plan your IAM integration strategy](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/configure-access/)
- [Set up Grafana monitoring](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/set-up-grafana-monitoring/)
- [Set up Grafana for high availability](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/set-up-for-high-availability/)
- [Set up Grafana HTTPS for secure web traffic](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/set-up-https/)
- [Set up image rendering](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/image-rendering/)
- [Set up Grafana Live](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/set-up-grafana-live/)
- [Configure a Grafana Docker image](/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/configure-docker/)