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title: "Data sources overview | Grafana Labs"
description: "Introduction to querying cloud data without storing it"
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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).

## Query with data sources

In this section, you’ll explore the data source approach:

- **How data source queries work**: real-time API queries, no stored copy
- **When to choose it**: avoid extra ingestion and storage cost by querying in place
- **CloudWatch data source**: AWS metrics and logs
- **Azure Monitor data source**: Azure metrics and logs
- **GCP data sources**: Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging

**Estimated time:** 10-15 minutes