Section 2 · Cloud metrics
Compare the metrics collection methods and set up the one that fits.
Estimated time: 1 min
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
Azure metrics
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.