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title: "Integration fundamentals | Grafana Labs"
description: "What a Grafana Cloud integration is, how it differs from a data source, and what you need before you install one."
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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).

# Integration fundamentals

What a Grafana Cloud integration is, how it differs from a data source, and what you need before you install one.

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