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Data source key takeaways

Key takeaways

  • A data source queries your cloud APIs in place, so there’s no extra ingestion or storage cost, and the data stays in your cloud provider. You still build dashboards, set alerts, and correlate with your other Grafana data.
  • One data source covers each provider:
    • AWS CloudWatch: metrics and logs.
    • Azure Monitor: metrics and logs.
    • GCP: Cloud Monitoring for metrics, Cloud Logging for logs.

Script

A data source queries your cloud APIs in place, so you avoid extra ingestion and storage cost while still building dashboards, alerts, and correlations. AWS CloudWatch and Azure Monitor each cover metrics and logs. For GCP, use Cloud Monitoring for metrics and Cloud Logging for logs. Choose a data source to query in place within your cloud’s retention window, or Cloud Provider Observability for prebuilt content, one query language, and keeping metrics past your provider’s retention limits.
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