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title: "Fleet Management overview | Grafana Labs"
description: "Understanding the problem Fleet Management solves"
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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).

## What is Fleet Management?

**Fleet Management** is a Grafana Cloud feature that provides a central control plane for managing collectors at scale.

## The problem it solves

| Without Fleet Management               | With Fleet Management               |
|----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| Update configs locally on each machine | Remotely configure with UI and API  |
| Check health dashboard by dashboard    | See entire fleet health at a glance |
| Hope configs stay consistent           | Ensure consistency with pipelines   |

## What Fleet Management provides

- **Streamlined configuration management** — Create, activate, and adjust configs remotely without scripts or manual processes
- **Centralized health monitoring** — Complete visibility into collector health with out-of-the-box dashboards
- **Cost and collection control** — Turn data streams on and off to optimize costs and reduce data overload

## Key insight

> **Configure once, deploy everywhere.** Instead of managing collectors individually, you manage them as a fleet.