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title: "Health monitoring | Grafana Labs"
description: "Transition to core concepts and health monitoring"
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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).

## Core concepts and health monitoring

In this module, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Fleet Management and gain hands-on experience:

- **How Fleet Management works** — Architecture and data flow
- **Access tokens** — Authentication for collectors
- **Attributes** — Organizing your fleet with key-value pairs
- **Health monitoring** — Understanding collector status
- **Self-monitoring** — Automatic health data collection
- **Hands-on practice** — Register a collector and explore health dashboards

## Estimated time

15-20 minutes