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Section 2 · Cloud metrics

Key takeaways for collecting cloud metrics.

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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.