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title: "Storage without changing how you collect | Grafana Labs"
description: "Why this journey exists, and what it covers"
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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).

# Storage without changing how you collect

You already collect metrics and logs. Grafana Cloud can store that data from the collectors you already run, including Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, and OpenTelemetry.

## What you’ll learn

Here’s what this journey covers:

- **When this approach fits**, and when the send-metrics docs point you at a different connection method
- **Which method matches the data you already have**, for metrics and for logs
- **How each method sends data**, including where Graphite metrics are stored
- **What you need** before you change a collector’s destination

## Journey duration

15 minutes