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What installing an integration adds

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What installing an integration adds

When you install an integration, Grafana Cloud adds a dashboard folder and default alert rules for that technology. The integration also includes Grafana Alloy configuration snippets that you apply on the collector.

Dashboard folder: Prebuilt dashboards for the integration
Alert rules: Default alert rules grouped in their own namespace
Alloy configuration: Snippets you apply on the collector so it collects data for that technology

It uninstalls cleanly

An integration’s dashboards and alert rules live in their own folder and namespace. When you uninstall the integration, Grafana Cloud removes them cleanly, including any custom dashboards and alerts you saved in those default locations. To keep your own work, save it in a separate folder so it persists.

Find and read your dashboards

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Find and read your dashboards

After Alloy starts collecting and sending data, your prebuilt dashboards are ready in Grafana Cloud.

Open a dashboard

Find your integration’s dashboards in three steps:

Click Dashboards in the main menu.
Open the integration’s folder. For example, the Linux server integration creates a Linux Node folder.
Select a dashboard to open it. For example, Nodes is a good starting dashboard for the Linux server integration.

Read what you see

A dashboard is empty until the first scrape, then the panels fill in. The scrape interval (the time between each collection) determines how soon data appears.

Note
If the panels are still empty after a scrape interval, refer to Troubleshoot Integration installations.

Time range: Sets the window of data shown, such as the last hour.
Refresh: Reruns the queries to pull the latest data.
Variables: Filter the dashboard, for example by instance.

Default alert rules from integrations

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Default alert rules from integrations

Dashboards show what is happening. Alert rules tell you when something needs attention.

Most integrations come with default alert rules based on common failure conditions. You get useful alerting without writing rules yourself.

Find your alert rules

Locate the rules an integration created in three steps:

Open Alerting and find the integration’s alert rule namespace. Each integration’s rules are grouped under their own namespace.
Open a rule to see its condition. Thresholds are described on that integration’s reference page.

Notifications are a separate step

Default rules define when something is wrong, not who gets told. To receive notifications, set up contact points and notification policies in Alerts & IRM. That setup isn’t included with the integration. To learn how, refer to the Grafana Alerting documentation.

See what each integration includes

Each integration has a page in the integration reference documentation that lists the dashboards and alerts it provides. Check there to know what to expect before and after you install.

Resources

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Resources

These pages cover installing an integration, the dashboards and alert rules it adds, and what to check if data does not appear.

Documentation

Learn more about setup and configuration:

Blog posts

See integrations in action:

How to quickly gain operational insights using Grafana Cloud monitoring solutions

Community

Connect with other Grafana users: