Section 8 · Decision support

How to move to Grafana Cloud from self-hosted Grafana or another vendor.

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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.

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