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title: "Grafana Cloud documentation | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "The official managed platform for Grafana dashboards, Prometheus/Graphite Metrics and Loki Logs."
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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).

# Grafana Cloud documentation

The official managed platform for Grafana dashboards, Prometheus/Graphite Metrics and Loki Logs.

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## Overview

Grafana Cloud is a highly available, performant, and scalable [observability](/docs/grafana-cloud/learn-and-build/get-started/learn/what-is-observability/) platform for your applications and infrastructure. It provides a centralized view over all of your observability data, whether the data lives in Grafana Cloud Metrics services or in your own bare-metal and cloud environments. With native support for many popular data sources such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch, and Amazon CloudWatch, all you have to do to begin creating dashboards and querying metrics data is to configure data sources in Grafana Cloud.

To get started with a forever free Grafana Cloud account, [create a Grafana Cloud account](/docs/grafana-cloud/learn-and-build/get-started/set-up-your-account/).

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## Explore

Grafana Cloud documentation is organized into four groups:

[Learn and build  
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Get started, understand your data, visualize it, and go deeper with developer resources.](/docs/grafana-cloud/learn-and-build/)

[Instrument and send data  
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Choose how to get data into Grafana Cloud, instrument services, send telemetry, and optimize which signals you store.](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/)

[Observe and act  
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Monitor applications, infrastructure, and AI systems; alert and measure reliability; respond to incidents; test and validate; connect data sources; and manage telemetry costs.](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/)

[AI tools  
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Infrastructure-level AI capabilities that enhance your Grafana workflows, including the MCP server, machine learning, Sift, and the LLM plugin.](/docs/grafana-cloud/ai-tools/)

[Platform  
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Core capabilities that span all Grafana Cloud products, from account administration and cost control to AI, automation, and connectivity, including Security and account management, Cost management and billing, Grafana Assistant, Workflows, Mobile app, and Knowledge graph.](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/)