Get started with Grafana Cloud
Welcome to the learning journey that shows you how to get started with a new Grafana Cloud account. This journey provides a comprehensive onboarding experience for new Grafana Cloud users, guiding you through essential setup steps to establish a robust observability platform for your organization.
Grafana Cloud is the fully managed observability platform that combines metrics, logs, traces, and profiles in a single, scalable solution. It provides everything you need to monitor, analyze, and understand your applications and infrastructure without the operational overhead of self-hosting.
This learning journey helps you establish the foundation for effective observability by covering team collaboration, data connectivity, monitoring setup, and cost management. You’ll learn how to invite team members, connect your data, set up billing alerts, and discover additional learning paths along the way.
Here’s what to expect
When you complete this journey, you’ll be able to:
- Invite team members to collaborate in your Grafana Cloud environment
- Navigate to documentation and install data sources to connect your systems
- Find and install integrations to monitor specific technologies
- Configure billing and usage alerts to manage costs effectively
- Access additional learning journeys for deeper expertise
Before you begin
Before you get started with Grafana Cloud, ensure that you have:
- A Grafana Cloud account. To create an account, refer to Grafana Cloud.
- Administrator permissions for your Grafana Cloud organization to invite team members and configure settings.
- Administrator access to the data sources or hosts you want to connect to Grafana Cloud.
Troubleshooting
If you get stuck, we’ve got your back! Where appropriate, troubleshooting information is just a click away.
More to explore
We understand you might want to explore other capabilities not strictly on this path. We’ll provide you opportunities where it makes sense.