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title: "Prometheus remote write | Grafana Labs"
description: "How Prometheus remote write sends scraped samples to Grafana Cloud Metrics"
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# Prometheus remote write

Prometheus `remote_write` forwards scraped samples to a remote storage endpoint. To store those samples in Grafana Cloud Metrics, add a `remote_write` block to your Prometheus configuration with your Grafana Cloud Metrics endpoint and credentials.

[![Prometheus remote write sends scraped samples to Grafana Cloud Metrics](prometheus-remote-write-flow.svg)](prometheus-remote-write-flow.svg "Prometheus remote write sends scraped samples to Grafana Cloud Metrics")

## Considerations

- You add a `remote_write` block to the Prometheus configuration.
- Grafana Cloud Metrics does not accept Prometheus’s separate push gateway. It receives samples through `remote_write`.
- You get the `/api/prom/push` URL, username, and password from the **Hosted Prometheus metrics** page under **Connections** in your stack, which also creates the token for you. The same values are on the Prometheus card in the Cloud Portal.

## Path

Configure Prometheus remote write step by step.

Learning path

#### Send metrics using Prometheus remote write

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides the best practice for configuring Prometheus remote write to send metrics to Grafana Cloud.

10 min

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