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title: "Types of cloud metrics | Grafana Labs"
description: "What cloud infrastructure metrics you can collect from AWS, Azure, and GCP."
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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).

## Types of metrics you can collect

| Category       | AWS             | Azure                | GCP                  |
|----------------|-----------------|----------------------|----------------------|
| **Compute**    | EC2, Lambda     | VMs, Functions       | GCE, Cloud Functions |
| **Containers** | ECS, EKS        | AKS, ACI             | GKE, Cloud Run       |
| **Databases**  | RDS, DynamoDB   | Azure SQL, Cosmos DB | Cloud SQL, Spanner   |
| **Storage**    | S3, EBS         | Blob, Disks          | Cloud Storage        |
| **Networking** | ELB, CloudFront | Load Balancer, CDN   | Cloud Load Balancing |

## Questions you can answer

| With cloud metrics in Grafana, you can answer…                    |
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| What’s the CPU utilization trend across all my compute instances? |
| Which services are approaching capacity limits?                   |
| How do costs correlate with traffic patterns?                     |
| What’s the p99 latency on my load balancers?                      |