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 pointMigration path
Self-hosted Grafana OSS or EnterpriseThe Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant carries dashboards, folders, data sources, plugins, and alerting resources to Cloud
Datadog, New Relic, or another vendorGrafana 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

Script

A common concern about moving to Cloud is losing the work you’ve already done. Grafana Cloud is designed so you don’t start from scratch. The Migration Assistant carries self-hosted setups over, Professional Services help if you’re coming from another vendor, and Solutions Architects help plan and execute either way.