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title: "Prometheus | Grafana Labs"
description: "The Prometheus data source for metrics."
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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).

# Prometheus: Cloud-native metrics

**What it’s for:** Time-series metrics including CPU, memory, request rates, error counts, and latency.

## Good to know

- Query language: PromQL
- Connects to any Prometheus-compatible backend, including Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, and Thanos
- Native Grafana support, so there’s nothing extra to install

## Best for

- Kubernetes environments
- Microservices architectures
- Cloud-native applications

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## Set it up

Open this path in your Grafana Cloud stack for a fully interactive experience, or read through it to understand the process first.

Learning path

#### Connect to a Prometheus data source

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides the best practice for configuring a Prometheus data source plugin.

10 min

Beginner

Docs & blog posts

#### Open in Grafana Cloud

Complete this learning path directly in your Grafana Cloud stack with an interactive learning experience.

[Open in Grafana Cloud]()

[View on website](/docs/learning-paths/prometheus/)