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title: "The data source landscape | Grafana Labs"
description: "Explore the most common data sources"
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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).

## The data source landscape

Grafana supports **dozens of data sources** covering metrics, logs, traces, databases, APIs, and more. In this tour, we’ll focus on the most common ones by category.

| Category      | Data sources            | What they connect                            |
|---------------|-------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
| **Metrics**   | Prometheus, InfluxDB    | Time-series metrics from your infrastructure |
| **Logs**      | Loki, Elasticsearch     | Log aggregation and search systems           |
| **Cloud**     | CloudWatch              | AWS metrics and logs                         |
| **Databases** | MySQL, PostgreSQL       | Query data directly from SQL databases       |
| **Flexible**  | Infinity, Google Sheets | APIs, JSON, CSV, spreadsheets                |

> **Start with what you already have.** Most teams connect their existing metrics or log system first, then expand from there.