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title: "Choose your metrics collection method | Grafana Labs"
description: "Compare the metrics collection methods and set up the one that fits."
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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).

# Collection method by cloud provider

| Cloud     | Quick start | Production         |
|-----------|-------------|--------------------|
| **AWS**   | Scrape jobs | Metric streams     |
| **Azure** | Serverless  | Serverless / Alloy |
| **GCP**   | None        | Alloy              |

## Which method by scenario

| Scenario                          | Method                                 |
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| AWS production                    | Metric streams                         |
| Azure production                  | Serverless                             |
| Quick evaluation (any cloud)      | Scrape jobs (AWS) / Serverless (Azure) |
| Multi-cloud environment           | Grafana Alloy                          |
| Want managed or workload identity | Grafana Alloy                          |

## Set up your chosen method

### AWS metrics

- [AWS scrape jobs (path)](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-cp-olly/01-cloud-metrics/06-aws-metrics-scrape-jobs/#set-it-up)
- [AWS metric streams (docs)](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/aws/cloudwatch-metrics/metric-streams/)

### Azure metrics

- [Azure serverless (path)](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-cp-olly/01-cloud-metrics/08-azure-metrics-serverless/#set-it-up)
- [Azure Alloy (docs)](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/azure/config-azure-metrics/)

### GCP metrics

- [GCP Alloy (docs)](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/gcp/config-gcp-metrics/)

**Next steps:** Set up your chosen method, then continue to the logs section to add log collection. Metrics tell you something’s wrong. Logs tell you why.