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title: "Service Center Backstage integration | Grafana Plugins documentation"
description: "Grafana Cloud can track your Backstage catalog and use that data to control behavior of Grafana Cloud systems."
---

> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Service Center Backstage integration

Users of Backstage can continuously import their Backstage catalog to populate Service Center data in Grafana Cloud.

This integration allows you to import your defined services and correlate to resources in Grafana IRM and SLO.

## Quick Start Guide

Follow the [quick start guide](https://github.com/grafana/backstage-plugin-grafana-catalog/blob/main/docs/quickstart.md) to test this plugin with a new Backstage install. The instructions should carry over to your production install.

## Install a new backstage instance

To create a backstage instance and install this plugin for local development, run the following:

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```none
> BACKSTAGE_APP_NAME=backstage-testing npx @backstage/create-app@latest
> cd backstage-testing
> git clone https://github.com/grafana/backstage-plugin-grafana-catalog.git  plugins/catalog-backend-module-grafana-servicemodel
> sed -i 's/"name": "@grafana\/catalog-backend-module-grafana-servicemodel",/"name": "@internal\/catalog-backend-module-grafana-servicemodel",/' plugins/catalog-backend-module-grafana-servicemodel/package.json

> yarn --cwd packages/backend add @internal/catalog-backend-module-grafana-servicemodel
```

add this line to `packages/backend/src/index.ts`:

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```none
backend.add(import('@internal/catalog-backend-module-grafana-servicemodel'));
```

Then to run:

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```none
> LOG_LEVEL=debug yarn dev
```

If you want to run against the k8s cluster in your default context:

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```none
> LOG_LEVEL=debug DEV_MODE=true yarn dev
```