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Section 1 · Cloud provider observability fundamentals

Introduction to monitoring cloud provider data

Estimated time: 1 min

Monitor your cloud providers in Grafana Cloud

Your workloads run in AWS, Azure, or GCP, and each provider keeps its metrics and logs in its own monitoring service. Cloud Provider Observability is the Grafana Cloud app for monitoring those services from one place. It fits a single provider as well as all three.

This journey shows you two ways to work with that data in Grafana Cloud:

  • Send to and store it in Grafana Cloud with Cloud Provider Observability and use prebuilt dashboards and alerts.

  • Query it in place with a data source. The CloudWatch and Azure Monitor data sources ship importable dashboards; you build alerts yourself.

Either way, you can visualize, alert on, and correlate your cloud data alongside everything else you monitor.

What you’ll learn

  • How to collect metrics from AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • How to collect logs from your cloud services
  • How to decide between storing your cloud data in Grafana Cloud and querying it in place with a data source
  • How to decide which collection method fits your needs

Journey duration

~35-45 minutes