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Fleet Management overview

What is Fleet Management?

Fleet Management is a Grafana Cloud control plane for managing collectors at scale.

The problem it solves

You’ve set up a collector on a server or two that’s collecting metrics and logs, and sending them to Grafana Cloud. It works great. But now you’re planning to roll out collectors across your entire infrastructure. That could be dozens of machines, maybe hundreds or thousands.

Every time you need to change what those collectors are collecting, you’re looking at updating configuration files on each machine individually. Maybe you’re SSH’ing into hosts and editing configs manually. Or maybe you’re using Ansible or Terraform, so you’re updating playbooks or HCL files, triggering CI/CD pipelines, and coordinating rollouts carefully to avoid drift or disruption. Either way, it’s operational overhead.

Without Fleet ManagementWith 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

What if you could manage all of those collectors from one place? What if you could configure 50, 100, 1000 machines with a few clicks? What if you could see the health of every collector at a glance?

Fleet Management offers:

  • Streamlined configuration management: Create, activate, and adjust configs remotely without scripts or manual processes.

  • Centralized health monitoring: Complete visibility into collector health with prebuilt 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.

Script

Let's start with where you might be right now. You've set up a collector on a server or two. It's collecting metrics, maybe some logs, and sending them to Grafana Cloud. It works great. But now you're planning to roll out collectors across your entire infrastructure. That could be dozens of machines, maybe hundreds or thousands. And you're already short on time.

Here’s the challenge. Every time you need to change what those collectors are collecting, you’re looking at updating configuration files on each machine individually. Maybe you’re SSH‘ing into hosts and editing configs manually. Or maybe you’re using Ansible or Terraform so you’re updating playbooks or HCL files, triggering CICD pipelines, and coordinating rollouts carefully to avoid drift or disruption. Either way, it’s operational overhead.

What if you could manage all of those collectors from one place? What if you could configure 50, 100, 1000 machines with a few clicks? What if you could see the health of every collector at a glance?

Fleet Management is a Grafana Cloud feature that provides a central control plane for managing collectors at scale. You register your collector instances once, and from then on, you can monitor their health, make configuration changes remotely, and troubleshoot issues, all from the Grafana Cloud interface.

Think of it like a control tower for your telemetry infrastructure. Instead of managing each collector independently, you coordinate them as a fleet.

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