Section 8 · Decision support
How to move to Grafana Cloud from self-hosted Grafana or another vendor.
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The concern: starting from scratch
Teams worry that moving to a managed platform means losing the work they’ve already done:
- Months of dashboard development
- Carefully tuned alert configurations
- Data source connections and integrations
How Cloud solves it
Grafana provides migration tools and support depending on your starting point.
| Starting point | Migration path |
|---|
| Self-hosted Grafana OSS or Enterprise | The Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant carries dashboards, folders, data sources, plugins, and alerting resources to Cloud |
| Datadog, New Relic, or another vendor | Grafana Professional Services help migrate dashboards, alerts, and data, with tooling like the Alloy Datadog receiver for ingestion |
Grafana Solutions Architects are available to help plan and execute your migration.
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