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title: "Key takeaways | Grafana Labs"
description: "Summary of course learnings"
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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).

## Course summary

**What you learned**

1. Integrations collect and store data in Grafana Cloud with pre-built dashboards and alerts
2. **10 most commonly deployed integrations by category:**
   
   - OS: Linux, Windows
   - Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
   - Network: HAProxy, IIS, SNMP
   - Messaging: Kafka, Istio
3. **The key advantage over data sources:**
   
   - **Integrations** = Full Grafana Cloud features (dashboards, alerts, ML, SLOs)
   - **Data Sources** = Visualization only

**The one thing to remember:**

> **Integrations give you the fastest path to full observability** — pre-built content plus all Grafana Cloud features enabled.