Grafana Labs Learning Hub

Chart your path to observability mastery.

Journeys

Deepen your technical knowledge with self-paced sections. From foundational cloud setups to advanced observability practices, these journeys guide you through hands-on exercises in your own cloud stack - helping you confidently scale and strengthen your observability strategy.

Which Grafana is right for you?

Understand your Grafana deployment options and choose the right one for your team.

Design a labeling strategy to control cardinality

Learn how labels multiply into billed series and streams, inspect your own stack's cardinality, choose metric and log labels deliberately, and reduce existing cardinality with Adaptive Metrics.

Introduction to monitoring databases

Monitor your databases with Grafana Cloud, from overall instance health to individual queries. Database integrations give you prebuilt dashboards, alerts, and database-level metrics across MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Database Observability goes deeper for MySQL and PostgreSQL, showing how every query performs and why. In this journey, you'll learn what each approach gives you, how to choose between them, and how to set them up hands-on.

Introduction to integrations

Grafana integrations are turnkey monitoring packages for a wide range of common technologies. Each one comes with a preconfigured Grafana Alloy setup, prebuilt dashboards, and alert rules, so you get monitoring in minutes instead of building it from scratch. In this journey, you'll learn what an integration is, how it differs from a data source connection, and how to set one up and use the dashboards and alerts it comes with.

Introduction to data sources

Explore common Grafana data sources, see how Grafana connects to data wherever it lives, and learn when a data source is the right way to bring your data in.

Introduction to monitoring cloud provider data

Set up observability for your cloud provider accounts and services using Grafana.

Send data from external collectors

Learn how to send metrics and logs to Grafana Cloud from Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, and other external collectors.

Introduction to Grafana Assistant

Learn how Grafana Assistant works, how to set it up in Grafana Cloud or self-managed Grafana, and how to navigate, query, and build dashboards without memorizing syntax.

Introduction to Grafana Alerting

Create a Grafana-managed alert rule from start to finish without writing any PromQL. Install the QuickPizza demo app, build a Prometheus query for HTTP 5xx server errors in the visual query builder, set a threshold, and route notifications to a contact point.

Dashboards as Code with the Foundation SDK and Git Sync

Learn to define Grafana dashboards as strongly typed code, store them in Git, and sync them to Grafana with Git Sync

Deploy Grafana resources as Code with Terraform

Learn to define Grafana resources like alert rules in HCL and deploy them with Terraform

Introduction to tracing

Learn what a distributed trace is, where tracing fits among your other signals, the four-stage tracing pipeline, and how to read a trace in Grafana, without setting anything up.

Getting started with k6 performance testing

Learn to write, run, and analyze k6 performance tests, from your first script to automated baselines that catch slow responses, timeouts, and errors under load with Grafana Cloud.

Manage your collectors at scale with Fleet Management

Learn to manage and monitor collectors at scale

Investigate metrics and logs with Drilldown

Investigate metrics and logs interactively without writing queries. Use Grafana Drilldown apps to navigate your data visually through a point-and-click interface.

Learning path catalog

Learning path catalog