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title: "Key takeaways | Grafana Labs"
description: "The most important principles to remember"
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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).

## Principles to remember

1. **Grafana resources deserve Infrastructure as Code rigor.** Version control, review, and automation produce a solid observability experience.
2. **Terraform’s state management prevents drift.** The state file ensures manual UI edits are corrected on the next pipeline run.
3. **The alerting pipeline has three parts.** Rule groups, contact points, and notification policies work together as a unit.
4. **The pipeline is the source of truth.** Code on main equals what’s deployed.