What skills your team needs for each deployment option
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Skills your team needs
Each deployment calls for a different mix of skills:
Deployment
Infrastructure skills
Observability skills
OSS / Enterprise
Linux, networking, upgrades, capacity planning, databases, and object storage for self-hosted metrics, logs, and traces
Building dashboards, alerts, integrations
Grafana Cloud
Reduced: you still deploy and maintain collectors like Grafana Alloy, but Grafana Labs runs the backends
Building dashboards, alerts, integrations
Considerations
Self-hosting requires a team with both infrastructure expertise and observability skills. Grafana Cloud lets a smaller team focus on using the data rather than running the platform.
More team members managing infrastructure means fewer available for building dashboards and analyzing problems.