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title: "Cloud metrics connected | Grafana Labs"
description: "Celebrate your cloud metrics connection"
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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).

## Cloud metrics connected!

**What you accomplished:**

- Explored different cloud metrics collection methods
- Understood the trade-offs between scrape jobs, metric streams, and Grafana Alloy
- Set up and configured metrics collection for your cloud provider
- Verified metrics are flowing into Grafana Cloud
- Learned how to monitor your cloud infrastructure effectively

## What’s next?

Continue to the next module to learn about collecting and analyzing cloud logs.