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title: "Graphite | Grafana Labs"
description: "How Graphite metrics reach the hosted Graphite backend"
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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).

# Graphite

Grafana Cloud includes a hosted Graphite backend and a pre-provisioned Graphite data source that queries it. Graphite metrics you send are stored there. They are not stored in Grafana Cloud Metrics.

[![carbon-relay-ng and the Graphite HTTP API send metrics to hosted Graphite](graphite-flow.svg)](graphite-flow.svg "carbon-relay-ng and the Graphite HTTP API send metrics to hosted Graphite")

## How Graphite metrics are sent

- carbon-relay-ng accepts plain-text carbon input and sends it to the hosted Graphite endpoint.
- You can also send to the hosted Graphite HTTP API directly.
- Your stack’s pre-provisioned Graphite data source queries the metrics after they arrive.

The Graphite endpoints are on your stack details page, under Graphite.

## Documentation

- [Send or visualize Graphite metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/metrics/metrics-graphite/)
- [Graphite data ingestion](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/metrics/metrics-graphite/data-ingestion/)