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Migrate from Grafana OSS/Enterprise to Grafana Cloud

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Migrate from Grafana OSS/Enterprise to Grafana Cloud

When you decide to migrate from your self-managed Grafana instance to Grafana Cloud, you can benefit from the convenience of a managed observability platform, additional cloud-only features, and robust security. There are a couple of key approaches to help you transition to Grafana Cloud.

Migration type	Tools used	Availability	Migratable resources
Manual	Command line utilities The Grafana HTTP API	Generally available in all versions of Grafana OSS/Enterprise	The entire Grafana instance
Automated	The Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant	Available in public preview from Grafana v11.2 using the `OnPremToCloudMigration` feature toggle. This toggle is enabled by default in Grafana v11.5 and later.	Dashboards Folders Data sources App Plugins Panel Plugins Library Panels Grafana Alerting resources

Our detailed migration guide explains the key steps and scripts to manually migrate your resources to Grafana Cloud, covering a comprehensive set of resources in your Grafana instance. Alternatively, the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant, available in public preview in Grafana v11.2 and later, automates the migration process across a broad range of Grafana resources. You can use the migration assistant to migrate a large proportion of your Grafana resources and then, if needed, leverage the migration guide to migrate the rest.