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title: "Course overview | Grafana Labs"
description: "Introduction to Integrations"
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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 if monitoring “just worked”?

You want to monitor your infrastructure, but building dashboards and alerts from scratch takes time. Integrations give you pre-built monitoring for 100+ technologies, configured in minutes, not hours.

## What you’ll learn

- **What integrations are** and how they differ from data sources
- **Key advantages** of integrations over data source connections
- **10 most commonly deployed integrations** and when to use each
- **How to get started** with quick links to documentation

## Course duration

~20 minutes

## Integrations covered

Linux • Windows • MySQL • PostgreSQL • MongoDB • HAProxy • IIS • SNMP • Kafka • Istio