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What database integrations provide

Metrics, dashboards, and alerts for your database

Database integrations use Grafana Alloy to collect database-level metrics from your database and send them to Grafana Cloud. Each integration provides:

  • Database-level metrics: connections, memory, and replication
  • Prebuilt dashboards and alerting rules
  • Broad coverage across MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Database

How integrations work

Each integration has its own setup instructions, but they follow the same general pattern:

  1. Install Grafana Alloy on a host that can reach your database.
  2. Configure the exporter. Some exporters are built into Alloy, such as the Redis and Oracle Database exporters. Others run alongside it, such as the JMX exporter for Cassandra.
  3. Install the dashboards and alerts from the Connections page in Grafana Cloud.

Alloy scrapes metrics from the exporter and forwards them to Grafana Cloud via Prometheus remote write. Some integrations, such as Cassandra and Oracle Database, also collect logs and send them to Grafana Cloud Logs.

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Database integrations collect database-level metrics like connections, memory usage, replication status, and throughput. They use Grafana Alloy to gather these metrics and send them to Grafana Cloud. Each integration comes with prebuilt dashboards and alerting rules, so you don’t have to build anything from scratch.

Each integration provides its own setup instructions, but they follow the same shape. You install Grafana Alloy, configure the exporter for your database, then install the dashboards and alerts from the Connections page in Grafana Cloud.

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