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Section 1 · Integration fundamentals

What you need to complete the hands-on sections

Estimated time: 1 min

For hands-on practice

If you’d like to follow along with the 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? The concepts and decision frameworks are valuable on their own without completing a hands-on practice.

These skills aren’t required, but they make the journey smoother:

TopicWhy it helps
Basic Grafana navigationYou’ll use prebuilt dashboards
Terminal/command line basicsCollector installation uses CLI