Journeys take you from “where do I start?” to confident, day-to-day use. Each one teaches a complete topic in short, guided steps — and many include hands-on practice, so you learn by doing.
A curated list of our most popular topics.
A journey is a guided series of sections that builds up a topic in depth and is more comprehensive than a path, which covers one focused task.A path is a short, step-by-step guide to one focused task. It is quicker than a journey, which builds up a topic in sections.
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.
Understand your Grafana deployment options and choose the right one for your team.
Decide whether Grafana Cloud is right for you. Learn how it brings your telemetry together, scales without your backend management, maintains compliance and security, adds AI capabilities, offers turnkey solutions, and speeds up incident response.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Set up observability for your cloud provider accounts and services using Grafana.
Learn what Alloy is, when to use it, how it works, and where it is deployed and managed in Grafana Cloud.
Learn to define Grafana dashboards as strongly typed code and deploy them with Terraform
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.
Learn how to send metrics and logs to Grafana Cloud from Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, and other external collectors.
Learn to define Grafana dashboards as strongly typed code, store them in Git, and sync them to Grafana with Git Sync
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.
Learn to define Grafana resources like alert rules in HCL and deploy them with Terraform
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.
Learn to manage and monitor collectors at scale
Investigate metrics and logs interactively without writing queries. Use Grafana Drilldown apps to navigate your data visually through a point-and-click interface.
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