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Metrics key takeaways

Key takeaways

  • Cloud providers expose metrics across compute, containers, databases, storage, and networking, and Grafana can collect all of them.
  • You have three collection methods:
    • Scrape jobs: the simplest start, configured in the Grafana Cloud UI with no infrastructure to deploy. Available for AWS and Azure.
    • Metric streams: AWS pushes metrics for low-latency delivery, which suits production alerting.
    • Grafana Alloy: flexible and works across clouds, and it’s the collection path for GCP.
  • Choose a collection method based on latency, scale, and how much you want to run yourself: scrape jobs for a quick start, metric streams for low-latency AWS, and Alloy for multi-cloud or GCP.

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Quick recap of metrics. Cloud providers expose metrics across compute, containers, databases, storage, and networking, and Grafana can collect all of them. You have three ways to collect: scrape jobs for the simplest start, AWS metric streams for low-latency delivery, and Grafana Alloy for flexibility and multi-cloud, which is also the path for GCP. Pick based on latency, scale, and how much you want to run yourself.
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