Section 1 · Journey overview

What you need before the hands-on work, and why no external data source, PromQL, or templating experience is required.

Estimated time: 1 min

Prerequisites

To complete the hands-on steps in this journey, you need:

RequirementDetails
Grafana Cloud accountSign up to access
Permission to manage alertsRequired to create alert rules and install the demo data
Basic Grafana navigationFamiliarity with menus and dashboards

What you don’t need

  • No external data source. The hands-on path installs the QuickPizza demo app for you.
  • No Go template syntax. Notification templates are covered in a later journey.
  • No PromQL. Every query in this journey uses Builder mode.