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Prerequisites for deploying an integration

For hands-on practice

If you’d like to follow along with the learning path exercises and deploy integrations on real systems, you’ll need:

  • A Grafana Cloud account (sign up free)
  • A system to monitor (Linux, Windows, database, etc.)
  • Permissions to install Grafana Alloy on your target system

Just exploring? You can complete the course without hands-on practice. The concepts and decision frameworks are valuable on their own.

TopicWhy it helps
Basic Grafana navigationYou’ll use pre-built dashboards
Terminal/command line basicsAgent installation uses CLI
Understanding of your infrastructureHelps choose the right integration

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Let’s talk about what you’ll need for this course.

If you want to follow along with the hands-on learning path exercises, you’ll need a few things. First, a Grafana Cloud account. You can sign up for free at grafana.com.

Second, access to a system you want to monitor, whether that’s a Linux server, Windows machine, or database. The integration will collect metrics from that system and send them to Grafana Cloud.

And finally, appropriate permissions to install the Grafana Alloy agent on your target system.

But if you’re just exploring concepts and not ready for hands-on practice, that’s completely fine. The concepts and decision frameworks are valuable on their own, and you can return to the hands-on sections whenever you’re ready.

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