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title: "Destination reached! | Grafana Labs"
description: "Congratulations on completing the MySQL Database Observability learning path."
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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).

# Destination reached!

Congratulations on completing this journey. Job well done.

You’ve set up Grafana Cloud Database Observability for MySQL, giving you deep visibility into query performance that goes well beyond basic metric monitoring.

You completed this journey as you:

- Understood the value of deep query monitoring versus basic metric collection
- Verified your MySQL 8.0+ instance meets the requirements for Database Observability
- Prepared your MySQL database with Performance Schema, a dedicated monitoring user, and digest settings
- Configured Grafana Alloy with the Database Observability MySQL components
- Verified telemetry is flowing using the Configuration page status checks
- Explored the Queries Overview dashboard to find slow queries and understand execution patterns
- Learned how to drill into individual queries for explain plans, wait events, and query samples

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### Related paths

Consider taking the following paths after you complete this journey:

- [Explore metrics using Metrics Drilldown](/docs/learning-paths/drilldown-metrics/)
- [Explore logs using Logs Drilldown](/docs/learning-paths/drilldown-logs/)
- [Monitor MySQL with Grafana Alloy (integration)](/docs/learning-paths/mysql-integration/)