Paths

Paths are short, task-based guides, each focused on a single outcome — deploying a Helm chart, connecting a data source, tuning an alert. Every path is a hands-on sequence you can finish in one sitting, and many let you practice directly in Grafana Play or your own Grafana stack.

All paths

Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud onboarding

Welcome to the Grafana Cloud learning path that shows you how to onboard your team and set up your observability platform.

Beginner 12 min Start
Grafana Cloud

Tour Grafana Cloud

Welcome to the Grafana Cloud learning path that shows you how to explore the key capabilities of the platform.

Beginner 13 min Start
Grafana

Monitor a Linux server

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides the best practice for setting up your Linux server integration.

Beginner 23 min Start
Grafana

Monitor a macOS system

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides the best practice for setting up your macOS integration.

Beginner 17 min Start
Grafana

Instrument your applications with Beyla

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to use Beyla to automatically instrument your applications with OpenTelemetry and send telemetry data to Grafana Cloud Traces.

Beginner 9 min Start
Grafana

Monitor a Windows system

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides best practices for monitoring your Windows system.

Beginner 16 min Start
Grafana

Monitor IIS web servers

Set up the IIS integration to monitor request rates, error rates, and worker process health for your IIS web servers.

Beginner 18 min Start
Grafana

Monitor MySQL with Grafana Alloy

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to monitor MySQL databases with Grafana Alloy and use pre-built dashboards and alerts in Grafana Cloud.

Beginner 17 min Start
Grafana Tempo

Send traces using Alloy

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to send traces to Grafana Cloud using Grafana Alloy for distributed tracing and observability.

Beginner 16 min Start
Grafana

Visualize GitHub data

Welcome to the GitHub data source learning path that shows you how to visualize GitHub repository data in Grafana Cloud.

Beginner 10 min Start
Grafana

Connect to InfluxDB

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to connect Grafana Cloud to an existing InfluxDB instance and query your time series data.

Beginner 13 min Start
Grafana

Connect to a Tempo data source

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to connect Grafana Cloud to a Tempo tracing backend and query your distributed traces.

Beginner 16 min Start
Grafana

Connect to CloudWatch

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to connect Grafana Cloud to Amazon CloudWatch and query your AWS metrics and logs.

Beginner 15 min Start
Grafana

Monitor PostgreSQL with Grafana Alloy

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to monitor PostgreSQL databases with Grafana Alloy and use pre-built dashboards and alerts in Grafana Cloud.

Beginner 18 min Start
Grafana

MySQL Database Observability

Set up Grafana Cloud Database Observability for MySQL to monitor query performance, explain plans, wait events, and query samples.

Intermediate 13 min Start
Grafana

PostgreSQL Database Observability

Set up Grafana Cloud Database Observability for PostgreSQL to monitor query performance, explain plans, wait events, and query samples.

Intermediate 13 min Start
Grafana

Monitor MongoDB with Grafana Cloud

Welcome to the MongoDB monitoring learning path that shows you how to use Grafana Alloy to send MongoDB metrics to Grafana Cloud for comprehensive database observability.

Beginner 18 min Start
Grafana

Monitor Kafka with Grafana Cloud

Welcome to the Kafka monitoring learning path that shows you how to use Grafana Alloy to send Kafka metrics to Grafana Cloud for comprehensive event streaming observability.

Beginner 22 min Start
Grafana

Visualize CSV data

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides the best practice for creating a dashboard that visualizes CSV data using the Infinity data source.

Beginner 13 min Start
Grafana

Categorize a collector fleet

Welcome to the Grafana Fleet Management learning path that shows you how to organize and categorize your collector fleet using custom attributes for remote configuration. Learn to categorize your infrastructure with meaningful attributes that answer critical questions such as who owns this collector, which service does it support, and where is it running.

Intermediate 9 min Start
Grafana

Visualize JSON data

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides the best practice for creating a dashboard that visualizes JSON data using the Infinity data source.

Beginner 15 min Start
Grafana

First alert rule

Build a complete Grafana alert rule from scratch — write a query, set a condition, add labels, configure evaluation and notifications, and save.

Beginner 12 min Start
Grafana

Optimize Adaptive Metrics

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to use Adaptive Metrics to automatically analyze and reduce unused or high-cardinality metrics.

Beginner 10 min Start
Grafana

Optimize Adaptive Logs

Adaptive Logs reduces log volume and cost in Grafana Cloud by automatically identifying and dropping low-value logs while preserving the insights that matter.

Beginner 15 min Start
Grafana

First alert rule with query language

Build a Grafana alert rule in Code mode — write a PromQL error-rate query, set a condition, add labels, configure evaluation and notifications, and save.

Intermediate 14 min Start
Grafana

Metrics Drilldown

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to use Metrics Drilldown to explore your metrics and provide insight into troubleshooting.

Beginner 11 min Start
Grafana

Logs Drilldown

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to use Logs Drilldown to explore your logs and provide insight into troubleshooting.

Beginner 13 min Start
Grafana Cloud

Monitor AWS resources

Monitor AWS resources with Grafana Cloud Provider Observability by collecting Amazon CloudWatch metrics through pre-built dashboards.

Beginner 15 min Start
Grafana

Transform data

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to use data transformations to shape, combine, and enhance your data for powerful visualizations and insights.

Beginner 15 min Start
Grafana

Explore Elasticsearch logs

Welcome to the Grafana learning journey that shows you how to query, search, and analyze log data stored in Elasticsearch using Grafana's Explore interface.

Beginner 11 min Start
Grafana

Configure Grafana IRM

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to configure Grafana IRM to manage incidents and organize on-call response.

Beginner 18 min Start
Grafana

Profiles Drilldown

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to use Profiles Drilldown to explore your profiles and find performance bottlenecks.

Beginner 10 min Start
Grafana

Read a trace

Open a real trace with live demo data and learn to read its span waterfall (nesting, durations, and attributes) with no account or setup.

Beginner 15 min Start
Grafana

Billing and usage

Learn how to use the Cost Management and Billing app to understand your Grafana Cloud usage, identify cost drivers, and set up usage alerts to control spending.

Beginner 18 min Start
Grafana

Visualize metrics

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to visualize CPU metrics in a dashboard.

Beginner 13 min Start
Grafana

Visualize logs

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to visualize logs in a dashboard.

Beginner 15 min Start
Grafana

Visualize traces

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to visualize traces in a dashboard

Beginner 16 min Start
Grafana

Monitor collector health

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that teaches you how to use Grafana Fleet Management to monitor and troubleshoot issues with your collectors.

Beginner 11 min Start
Grafana Cloud

Get started with Grafana Assistant

Enable Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud, judge your first reply, decide when to use @ mentions, and choose Learn vs Assistant mode.

Beginner 12 min Start
Grafana

Create an availability SLO

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to define a reliability SLI and create an SLO to track service availability.

Beginner 14 min Start
Grafana k6

Run your first k6 performance test

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to write, run, and analyze your first k6 performance test, from installation to visualizing results in Grafana Cloud.

Beginner 11 min Start
Grafana k6

Establish a k6 baseline

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to establish a k6 performance baseline with load profiles, checks, thresholds, and k6 Cloud result sharing.

Beginner 19 min Start
Grafana k6

Find system limits with k6

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to find system limits with k6 stress and breakpoint testing, map a capacity envelope, and apply results to operational guardrails.

Intermediate 24 min Start
Grafana k6

k6 spike testing

Design spike-shaped k6 load tests, interpret blended summaries and phase timelines in Grafana Cloud k6, document recovery time and categories, and turn results into follow-up actions for SLOs, alerting, and retest cadence.

Intermediate 26 min Start
Grafana k6

Automate k6 in CI/CD

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to automate k6 performance tests in CI/CD pipelines so performance is enforced on every deploy.

Intermediate 18 min Start
Grafana k6

k6 soak testing

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to test system endurance with k6 soak testing—design long-plateau profiles, stream results to Grafana Cloud k6, and document gradual degradation.

Intermediate 19 min Start
Grafana k6

k6 script authoring

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that shows you how to use k6 Script Authoring mode in Grafana Assistant to generate, convert, improve, and validate k6 scripts for CI.

Intermediate 4 min Start

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