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title: "Introduction to Grafana Alloy | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn what Alloy is, when to use it, how it works, and where it is deployed and managed in Grafana Cloud."
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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).

# Introduction to Grafana Alloy

Learn what Alloy is, when to use it, how it works, and where it is deployed and managed in Grafana Cloud.

Journey

A journey is a guided series of sections that builds up a topic in depth and is more comprehensive than a path, which covers one focused task.

Slides

19

Duration

22 min

[Start journey](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-alloy/01-intro/01-journey-overview/)