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title: "Prerequisites | Grafana Labs"
description: "What you need before starting this journey"
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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

Before you design your labeling strategy, ensure that you have:

- A Grafana Cloud account. To create an account, refer to [Grafana Cloud](/signup/cloud/connect-account). A stack that’s already receiving metrics and logs shows richer data in the hands-on interactive guides.
- The permissions granted by the **Billing and usage reader** role, including cardinality read access. Refer to [Manage access to the Cost Management and Billing app](/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/set-up/cost-management-billing-rbac/).
- Basic familiarity with metrics and logs concepts.