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title: "Prerequisites | Grafana Labs"
description: "What you need before you start"
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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).

## Required

- A Grafana instance (Grafana Cloud, OSS, or Enterprise) where you have Grafana Admin access, so you can open **Administration > General > Provisioning** later. You can [sign up for free](/signup/cloud/connect-account)
- A Git repository you can commit to. This journey focuses on GitHub, but Git Sync also works with any Git repository, such as GitLab or Bitbucket
- Go or Node.js installed for the Foundation SDK language you choose
- A GitHub personal access token when you reach Git Sync setup: a credential string that lets Grafana read and write the repository, or any other authentication method you may use

Terraform is not required for this journey.