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title: "Cloud metrics overview | Grafana Labs"
description: "Introduction to collecting cloud metrics"
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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).

## Cloud metrics

**In this section, you’ll explore the metrics your cloud resources produce**:

- **Types of metrics**: Compute, containers, databases, storage, networking
- **Collection methods**: Scrape jobs, metric streams, serverless, and Grafana Alloy approaches
- **Provider-specific details**: AWS, Azure, and GCP implementations
- **Comparison and selection**: Choosing the right method for your needs
- **Hands-on option**: Guided learning paths for AWS or Azure

**Estimated time:** 20-25 minutes