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title: "Before you begin | Grafana Labs"
description: "What you need before you start, and why no account or setup is required."
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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).

## Before you begin

- You’re comfortable with metrics and logs. This journey adds traces as a third signal.
- No prior tracing experience is assumed.
- No Grafana Cloud account or running pipeline is required. The one hands-on exercise uses a public demo, so nothing needs to be set up.