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title: "Integrations overview | Grafana Labs"
description: "Quick start monitoring with pre-built dashboards and alerts"
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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 integrations provide

| Component                | Description                                    |
|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| **Pre-built dashboards** | Professional visualizations, ready immediately |
| **Alert rules**          | Sensible thresholds for common problems        |
| **Collection config**    | Configuration to gather metrics and logs       |
| **Best practices**       | Built from real-world operational experience   |

## Questions answered

| With integrations, you can answer…                    |
|-------------------------------------------------------|
| Is my NGINX server healthy? What’s the request rate?  |
| How many connections does my MySQL database have?     |
| Is my Redis cache running low on memory?              |
| Which of my Linux hosts is running out of disk space? |

## Problems solved

| Problem                                     | How integrations help                      |
|---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| Building dashboards from scratch takes time | Production-ready dashboards included       |
| Don’t know what metrics to collect          | Expert-curated metric and log collection   |
| Unsure what alerts to set                   | Pre-configured alert rules                 |
| Want monitoring in minutes, not days        | 5-10 minute time to value                  |
| Can’t install agents on cloud services      | Agentless integrations for AWS, Azure, GCP |
| OSS exporters generate too much data        | Curated metrics reduce volume and noise    |
| High cardinality driving up costs           | Collect only what matters, nothing more    |

## Coverage

Many integrations covering: Linux, Windows, NGINX, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, and more.

[Browse the full list of integrations](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/integrations/integration-reference/)

> **Fast time to value.** If you’re monitoring something common, integrations are the fastest path to visibility.