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Section 2 · Understand your options

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:

DeploymentInfrastructure skillsObservability skills
OSS / EnterpriseLinux, networking, upgrades, capacity planning, databases, and object storage for self-hosted metrics, logs, and tracesBuilding dashboards, alerts, integrations
Grafana CloudReduced: you still deploy and maintain collectors like Grafana Alloy, but Grafana Labs runs the backendsBuilding 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.