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Prerequisites

For hands-on practice

If you’d like to follow along with the learning path exercises and configure cloud provider integrations, you’ll need:

  • A Grafana Cloud account (sign up free)
  • Access to AWS, Azure, or GCP with running resources
  • Grafana Cloud permissions to configure integrations (see below)
  • Cloud provider permissions to create IAM roles/service accounts

Just exploring? You can complete the course without hands-on practice. The concepts and decision frameworks are valuable on their own.

Grafana Cloud permissions

RoleWhat you can do
AdminFull read/write access to all providers
AWS/Azure/GCP WriterRead access + write access to specific provider
EditorRead-only access (can view, not configure)

Cloud Provider Observability offers fine-grained RBAC roles so your organization can grant specific access without full admin permissions.

TopicWhy it helps
Basic Grafana navigationYou’ll explore dashboards and data sources
Your cloud provider’s consoleYou’ll configure IAM and integrations
Understanding your cloud resourcesYou’ll know what to monitor

Script

Let’s talk about what you’ll need for this course.

If you want to follow along with the hands-on learning path exercises, you’ll need a few things. First, a Grafana Cloud account. You can sign up for free at grafana.com.

Second, access to at least one cloud provider like AWS, Azure, or GCP. You should have an account with some running resources to monitor, like EC2 instances, Azure VMs, or GCE machines.

And finally, appropriate permissions in both Grafana Cloud and your cloud provider.

In Grafana Cloud, you’ll need either Admin access, or one of the Cloud Provider plugin roles like AWS Writer, Azure Writer, or GCP Writer. These plugin roles let your organization grant fine-grained access without giving someone full admin permissions.

In your cloud provider, you’ll need permissions to create IAM roles or service accounts for the integrations.

But if you’re just exploring concepts and not ready for hands-on practice, that’s completely fine. The concepts and decision frameworks are valuable on their own, and you can return to the hands-on sections whenever you’re ready.

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