You’re set up to work with data sources

You can choose a data source, connect it with a guided path, and put it to work by querying, visualizing, and alerting on your data where it already lives. Here’s where to go next.

Documentation

Learn more about connecting and using data sources:

• Data sources reference
• Explore
• Dashboards and visualizations
• Grafana Alerting
• Troubleshoot data sources

Blog posts

See data sources in action:

• Grafana for beginners: Quick tips to add a data source, choose a visualization, and more
• How to work with multiple data sources in Grafana dashboards: best practices to get started
• Data sources, visualizations, and apps: A guide to extending and customizing Grafana
• Infinity plugin for Grafana: Grafana Labs will now maintain the versatile data source plugin
• Visualize Google Cloud BigQuery data in Grafana: the latest updates, key features, and more

Community

Connect with other Grafana users:

• Grafana Community Forums
• Grafana Slack

Continue learning

Here are additional resources to continue learning:

• Data source management
• Data source security best practices
• Integrations
• Send data from external collectors
• Cloud Provider Observability
• Database Observability