Welcome to Grafana Cloud

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:57:44 -0500

Welcome to Grafana Cloud

By the end of this journey, your data will be flowing into Grafana Cloud, or connected where it already lives, and you’ll be familiar with dashboards and the other features you’ll use most.

This journey is for people who have already chosen to work with Grafana Cloud, or are about to sign up.

Note
If you’re still deciding, start with Introduction to Grafana Cloud instead. If you want to compare Grafana options first, start with Which Grafana is right for you?.

What you’ll learn

Here’s what this journey covers:

Choose a starting point: based on your situation
Perform one first action: in your own account, with a guide that walks you through it
Look around Grafana: dashboards, visualizations, Drilldown, Explore, and alerting on a public demo, while your data arrives or before you have access
Know what else exists: two or three other things Grafana Cloud can do after that first action

Journey duration

~10-15 minutes of slides. Each hands-on path you complete adds about 5 minutes.

What you need

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:59:53 -0500

What you need

Hands-on steps in your own account need a Grafana Cloud account: sign up free if you don’t have one.

Grafana Play

Later in the journey, you’ll have chances to work with Grafana Play, a public Grafana site you can click around without installing anything.

A browser is enough
Play doesn’t touch your account or your systems

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