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Section 2 · Common data sources

Browse common data sources and jump to the one you want to explore

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Browse the data sources

Grafana supports more than 150 data sources, but you don’t need to learn them all. This journey covers some common ones.

Data source decision flowchart: start with data type, then narrow by use case

Here are the data sources you can explore in this journey.

Data sourceTypeBest forQuery language
PrometheusMetricsCloud-native metricsPromQL
InfluxDBMetricsIoT, high-volumeFlux, InfluxQL, SQL (v3+)
LokiLogsCost-effective logsLogQL
ElasticsearchLogsFull-text searchLucene
CloudWatchCloudAWS resourcesMetrics Insights, metric math
MySQLSQLApplication dataSQL
PostgreSQLSQLApplication dataSQL
InfinityFlexibleAPIs, filesJSONata, JQ, UQL
Google SheetsFlexibleSpreadsheet dataCell references

A Grafana Cloud account is helpful for hands-on practice, but optional. You can read through this journey to understand the setup process without connecting anything yourself.