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Prerequisites

For hands-on practice

If you’d like to follow along with the learning path exercises and configure your pipeline to send data, you’ll need:

  • A Grafana Cloud account (sign up free)
  • A metrics or logs pipeline (Prometheus, InfluxDB, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
  • Access to configure your pipeline’s remote write or export settings

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 verify data in Grafana Cloud
Your current pipeline setupYou’ll configure it to send data
Understanding of your data formatHelps choose the right ingestion method

Script

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, a metrics or logs pipeline that you want to route to Grafana Cloud. This course is specifically for users who already have collection handled and want to send that data to Grafana Cloud.

And finally, access to configure your pipeline to send data to a new destination.

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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