For hands-on practice

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

A Grafana Cloud account (sign up free)
A metrics or logs collection setup (Prometheus, InfluxDB, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
Access to configure its remote write or export settings

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

Recommended prior knowledge

Topic	Why it helps
Basic Grafana navigation	You’ll verify data in Grafana Cloud
Your current collection setup	You’ll configure it to send data
Understanding of your data format	Helps choose the right ingestion method

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

If you want to follow along with the hands-on 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 collection setup that you want to route to Grafana Cloud. This journey is specifically for users who already have collection handled and want to send that data to Grafana Cloud.

And finally, access to configure that collection setup 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.

For hands-on practice

Recommended prior knowledge

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