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title: "Resources and next steps | Grafana Labs"
description: "Workshops, docs, and community resources for Grafana Alloy"
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Section 5 · Alloy in Grafana Cloud

Workshops, docs, and community resources for Grafana Alloy

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## Resources and next steps

Use these resources for hands-on practice, reference docs, and places to ask questions.

### Workshops and examples

- [Grafana Alloy for Beginners playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDGkOdUX1UjoUmd6Z-lKgGaGzmZvYxRWs): a video series from concepts through infrastructure and application pipelines
- [Grafana Alloy for Beginners workshop repo](https://github.com/grafana/Grafana-Alloy-for-Beginners): a Docker-based learning environment used with the playlist
- [alloy-scenarios](https://github.com/grafana/alloy-scenarios): self-contained runnable examples for logs, metrics, traces, and more

### Documentation

- [Introduction to Grafana Alloy](/docs/alloy/latest/introduction/)
- [Get started](/docs/alloy/latest/get-started/)
- [Component reference](/docs/alloy/latest/reference/components/)
- [Introduction to Fleet Management](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/fleet-management/introduction/)

### Community

- [Grafana Community Forums](https://community.grafana.com/)
- [Grafana Slack](https://slack.grafana.com/)

## Continue learning

For a deeper Fleet Management walkthrough, continue with this journey:

[Manage your collectors at scale with Fleet Management](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-fleet-management/)