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Prometheus remote write

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Prometheus remote write

Prometheus remote_write forwards scraped samples to a remote storage endpoint. To store those samples in Grafana Cloud Metrics, add a remote_write block to your Prometheus configuration with your Grafana Cloud Metrics endpoint and credentials.

Considerations

You add a remote_write block to the Prometheus configuration.
Grafana Cloud Metrics does not accept Prometheus’s separate push gateway. It receives samples through remote_write.
You get the /api/prom/push URL, username, and password from the Hosted Prometheus metrics page under Connections in your stack, which also creates the token for you. The same values are on the Prometheus card in the Cloud Portal.

Path

Configure Prometheus remote write step by step.

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InfluxDB

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InfluxDB

Grafana Cloud can store InfluxDB line protocol in Grafana Cloud Metrics in two ways. A third option, the InfluxDB data source, queries InfluxDB where it already lives and does not store a copy.

Option 1: influxdb_exporter

Use this when you want Prometheus to scrape InfluxDB metrics and remote-write them.

Install influxdb_exporter on the system where InfluxDB runs. It exposes an endpoint Prometheus can scrape.
Prometheus scrapes that endpoint and sends the samples with remote_write.
You run both the exporter and Prometheus.

Option 2: Telegraf

Use this when Telegraf, or another client, already pushes Influx line protocol.

Point Telegraf’s InfluxDB output at your metrics write endpoint plus /api/v1/push/influx.
Grafana Cloud converts each line-protocol field into a Prometheus series named metric_name_field.
Set skip_database_creation = true. The Grafana Cloud Influx write endpoint does not support creating databases, and Telegraf tries to create one by default.

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Graphite

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Graphite

Grafana Cloud includes a hosted Graphite backend and a pre-provisioned Graphite data source that queries it. Graphite metrics you send are stored there. They are not stored in Grafana Cloud Metrics.

How Graphite metrics are sent

carbon-relay-ng accepts plain-text carbon input and sends it to the hosted Graphite endpoint.
You can also send to the hosted Graphite HTTP API directly.
Your stack’s pre-provisioned Graphite data source queries the metrics after they arrive.

The Graphite endpoints are on your stack details page, under Graphite.

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OpenTelemetry metrics

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OpenTelemetry metrics

The Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint accepts OpenTelemetry metrics, logs, and traces. OTLP metrics are routed into Grafana Cloud Metrics.

Grafana Alloy is the Grafana Labs supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Alloy is the recommended production collector, however other OpenTelemetry Collector distributions can send to the same endpoint with additional setup.

An SDK can send OTLP directly for non-production use, or when you cannot deploy a collector.

Considerations

You send OTLP as-is. Grafana converts . and - in metric and label names to _.
Extra describing fields on the metric (resource attributes) are stored on a metric named target_info.
The same endpoint accepts logs and traces. This journey does not walk through traces.

Send metrics on Grafana Labs

Prometheus remote write

Prometheus remote write

Considerations

Path

Send metrics using Prometheus remote write

Open in Grafana Cloud

InfluxDB

InfluxDB

Option 1: influxdb_exporter

Option 2: Telegraf

Documentation

Graphite

Graphite

How Graphite metrics are sent

Documentation

OpenTelemetry metrics

OpenTelemetry metrics

Considerations

Documentation

Resources

Resources

Documentation