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title: "Choose your signal | Grafana Labs"
description: "Where to go next for metrics, logs, traces, or profiles with Alloy"
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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).

Section 5 · Alloy in Grafana Cloud

Where to go next for metrics, logs, traces, or profiles with Alloy

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## Choose your signal

Choose the signal you want to collect next, then open the collection docs to go deeper.

- **Metrics:** Numeric measurements collected over time that give a high-level picture of system state.
  
  [Collect Prometheus metrics](/docs/alloy/latest/collect/prometheus-metrics/)
- **Logs:** Timestamped text records of discrete events.
  
  [Collect logs with Alloy](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/logs/collect-logs-with-alloy/)
- **Traces:** A map of a single request as it moves through distributed services.
  
  [Set up traces with Alloy](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/traces/set-up/traces-with-alloy/)
- **Profiles:** Code-level data that shows which functions consume CPU and memory.
  
  [Send profile data](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/profiles/send-profile-data/)