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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
  • Why integrations save setup time with prebuilt, maintained monitoring
  • How to set up an integration using its learning path or reference docs
  • How to use the prebuilt dashboards and alert rules

Journey duration

~20 minutes

Integrations covered

This journey focuses on some of the integrations available:

Linux • Windows • MySQL • PostgreSQL • MongoDB • Redis • Memcached • Apache Cassandra • Oracle Database • HAProxy • IIS • Kafka • SNMP • 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 the technology you want to monitor, set it up using its learning path or reference documentation, and use the dashboards and alerts that come with it.

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

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