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Journey overview

Monitoring that’s ready to go

You want to monitor your systems, but building dashboards and alerts from scratch takes time. An integration deploys the Grafana Alloy collector to bring your data into Grafana Cloud. Then you can use prebuilt dashboards and alerts, configured in minutes, not hours.

What you’ll learn

Here’s what this journey covers:

  • What integrations are and how they differ from data sources
  • Key advantages of integrations over data source connections
  • How to choose and set up an integration using a guided, hands-on learning path
  • How to use the bundled dashboards and recommended alert rules, based on best practices

Journey duration

~25 minutes

Integrations covered

This journey focuses on some of the most commonly deployed integrations:

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

Script

Want to get monitoring up and running fast, with dashboards, alerts, and best practices built in? That’s what integrations are for.

In this journey, you’ll learn what integrations are and why they give you more than a data source connection. Then you’ll choose an integration for your infrastructure, set it up with a guided learning path, and use the dashboards and alerts that come with it.

By the end, you’ll know which integrations fit your stack, how to set one up, and how to use the monitoring it provides.

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