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title: "Hands-on exercise summary | Grafana Labs"
description: "Summary of skills from the database integrations learning paths"
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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).

## Hands-on exercise summary

**What you accomplished:**

- Installed Grafana Alloy and configured a database exporter
- Connected your database metrics to Grafana Cloud
- Installed pre-built dashboards and alerts
- Verified that metrics flow to your Grafana Cloud stack

**Skills unlocked:**

| Skill                | You can now…                                                                |
|----------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Metric collection    | Configure Grafana Alloy to collect database metrics                         |
| Pre-built dashboards | Monitor database health with purpose-built visualizations                   |
| Alerting             | Receive notifications when your database needs attention                    |
| Log collection       | Correlate database logs with metrics (Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) |

## What’s next

- **Try another database** — Go back and choose a different integration: [MongoDB](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/03-database-integrations/13-mongodb-integration/) | [Redis](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/03-database-integrations/14-redis-integration/) | [Memcached](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/03-database-integrations/15-memcached-integration/) | [Cassandra](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/03-database-integrations/16-cassandra-integration/) | [MySQL](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/03-database-integrations/17-mysql-integration/) | [PostgreSQL](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/03-database-integrations/18-postgresql-integration/) | [Oracle](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/03-database-integrations/18a-oracle-integration/)
- **Browse integrations** — Explore all available [Grafana Cloud integrations](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/integrations/)