What you can do next
You picked a starting point, got data flowing, and looked around the features you’ll use to work with it. Everything else in Grafana Cloud builds on that foundation. When you need them, Grafana IRM puts alerts, on-call schedules, and incident timelines in one place, and Adaptive Telemetry trims the volume and cost of the data you send. Neither is a first step.
Pick your next journey
Most starting points have a journey that goes deeper:
- Connected a data source? Take Introduction to data sources.
- Installed an integration? Take Introduction to integrations.
- Sent data from a collector? Take Send data from external collectors.
- Instrumented an app? Take Introduction to tracing to get more from its traces.
- Built a load test? Take Getting started with k6 performance testing.
To practice what you saw on Grafana Play, but with your own data, take Introduction to Grafana Alerting to build your first alert rule, or Investigate metrics and logs with Drilldown to run a full investigation.
Bookmark these
- Cost management and billing: What Grafana Cloud bills for, and how to watch your usage
- Work with demo data: Realistic data in your own stack, free to use
- Quick start for telemetry signals: Goes deeper than the walkthroughs, including query languages
- Grafana Play: The public demo site you toured, always there to experiment in
- Community forums and Grafana Slack: Where Grafana users ask and answer questions
