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title: "Move between options | Grafana Labs"
description: "Migration paths between deployment options"
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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).

## Migration paths

If your needs change, you can move between deployment options.

## Moving to Grafana Cloud

The most common move is from a self-hosted option to Grafana Cloud:

| Method                                                                                                                  | What it migrates                                               | Availability                                          |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
| [**Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant**](/docs/grafana/latest/administration/migration-guide/cloud-migration-assistant/) | Dashboards, folders, data sources, plugins, alerting resources | Generally available in v12; public preview from v11.2 |
| [**Manual migration**](/docs/grafana/latest/administration/migration-guide/)                                            | Everything (full instance)                                     | All versions                                          |