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title: "Migration paths | Grafana Labs"
description: "How to move to Grafana Cloud from self-hosted Grafana or another vendor."
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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).

## The concern: starting from scratch

Teams worry that moving to a managed platform means losing the work they’ve already done:

- Months of dashboard development
- Carefully tuned alert configurations
- Data source connections and integrations

## How Cloud solves it

Grafana provides migration tools and support depending on your starting point.

| Starting point                            | Migration path                                                                                                                      |
|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Self-hosted Grafana OSS or Enterprise** | The Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant carries dashboards, folders, data sources, plugins, and alerting resources to Cloud           |
| **Datadog, New Relic, or another vendor** | Grafana Professional Services help migrate dashboards, alerts, and data, with tooling like the Alloy Datadog receiver for ingestion |

Grafana Solutions Architects are available to help plan and execute your migration.

## Additional resources

- [Migration guide](/docs/grafana-cloud/security-and-account-management/migration-guide/)