--- title: "Journeys | Grafana Labs" description: "Hand-authored journeys through Grafana Cloud — start from zero and build real skills section by section." --- > For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt). # Journeys Journeys take you from “where do I start?” to confident, day-to-day use. Each one teaches a complete topic in short, guided steps — and many include hands-on practice, so you learn by doing. ## Featured Journeys A curated list of our most popular topics. ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana Which Grafana is right for you? Journey Beginner 19 min ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana Introduction to Grafana Cloud Journey Beginner 51 min ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana Introduction to integrations Journey Beginner 28 min ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana Introduction to Grafana Assistant Journey Beginner 16 min ![](/media/docs/learning-journey/map.svg) A journey is a guided series of sections that builds up a topic in depth and is more comprehensive than a path, which covers one focused task.A path is a short, step-by-step guide to one focused task. It is quicker than a journey, which builds up a topic in sections. Slides Minutes [Start journey](/docs/learning-hub/which-grafana/) #### What you'll be able to do #### slides in this Section · []() ## All journeys Topic All topicsGrafana Level All levelsBeginnerIntermediate Clear filters ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Get started with Grafana Cloud](/docs/learning-hub/get-started-grafana-cloud/) Learn how to get data flowing into your own Grafana Cloud stack, then view a demo that introduces common Grafana Cloud features. This journey is for people who have decided that Grafana Cloud meets their needs. Beginner 25 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/get-started-grafana-cloud/01-intro/01-youre-in/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Which Grafana is right for you?](/docs/learning-hub/which-grafana/) Understand your Grafana deployment options and choose the right one for your team. Beginner 19 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/which-grafana/01-intro/01-journey-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Introduction to Grafana Cloud](/docs/learning-hub/is-grafana-cloud-right-for-me/) Decide whether Grafana Cloud is right for you. Learn how it brings your telemetry together, scales without your backend management, maintains compliance and security, adds AI capabilities, offers turnkey solutions, and speeds up incident response. Beginner 51 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/is-grafana-cloud-right-for-me/00-introduction/01-intro/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Design a labeling strategy to control cardinality](/docs/learning-hub/labeling-strategy/) Learn how labels multiply into billed series and streams, inspect your own stack's cardinality, choose metric and log labels deliberately, and reduce existing cardinality with Adaptive Metrics. Beginner 27 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/labeling-strategy/01-intro/01-journey-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Introduction to monitoring databases](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/) Monitor your databases with Grafana Cloud, from overall instance health to individual queries. Database integrations give you prebuilt dashboards, alerts, and database-level metrics across MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Database Observability goes deeper for MySQL and PostgreSQL, showing how tracked queries perform and why. In this journey, you'll learn what each approach gives you, how to choose between them, and how to set them up hands-on. Beginner 27 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/01-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Introduction to integrations](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-integrations/) Grafana integrations are turnkey monitoring packages for a wide range of common technologies. Each one comes with a preconfigured Grafana Alloy setup, prebuilt dashboards, and alert rules, so you get monitoring in minutes instead of building it from scratch. In this journey, you'll learn what an integration is, how it differs from a data source connection, and how to set one up and use the dashboards and alerts it comes with. Beginner 28 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-integrations/00-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Introduction to Grafana Assistant](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-grafana-assistant/) Learn how Grafana Assistant works, how to set it up in Grafana Cloud or self-managed Grafana, and how to navigate, query, and build dashboards without memorizing syntax. Beginner 16 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-grafana-assistant/01-intro/01-guide-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Schedule recurring work with Grafana Assistant Automations](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-assistant-automations/) Plan a repeatable Assistant prompt, understand access and usage, and judge when its output is ready for a schedule. Beginner 14 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-assistant-automations/01-intro/01-journey-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Introduction to data sources](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-data-sources/) Explore common Grafana data sources, see how Grafana connects to data wherever it lives, and learn when a data source is the right way to bring your data in. Beginner 24 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-data-sources/00-overview/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Introduction to monitoring cloud provider data](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-cp-olly/) Set up observability for your cloud provider accounts and services using Grafana. Beginner 31 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-cp-olly/00-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Introduction to Grafana Alloy](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-alloy/) Learn what Alloy is, when to use it, how it works, and where it is deployed and managed in Grafana Cloud. Beginner 22 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-alloy/01-intro/01-journey-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Dashboards as Code with the Foundation SDK and Terraform](/docs/learning-hub/dashboards-as-code/) Learn to define Grafana dashboards as strongly typed code and deploy them with Terraform Beginner 21 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/dashboards-as-code/01-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Introduction to Grafana Alerting](/docs/learning-hub/basic-alerting/) Create a Grafana-managed alert rule from start to finish without writing any PromQL. Install the QuickPizza demo app, build a Prometheus query for HTTP 5xx server errors in the visual query builder, set a threshold, and route notifications to a contact point. Beginner 20 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/basic-alerting/01-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Send data from external collectors](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-send-data/) Learn how to send metrics and logs to Grafana Cloud from Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, and OpenTelemetry collectors you already run. Beginner 13 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-send-data/00-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Dashboards as Code with the Foundation SDK and Git Sync](/docs/learning-hub/dashboards-as-code-git-sync/) Learn to define Grafana dashboards as strongly typed code, store them in Git, and sync them to Grafana with Git Sync Beginner 21 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/dashboards-as-code-git-sync/01-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Introduction to tracing](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-tracing/) Learn what a distributed trace is, where tracing fits among your other signals, the four-stage tracing pipeline, and how to read a trace in Grafana, without setting anything up. Beginner 23 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-tracing/01-intro/01-journey-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Deploy Grafana resources as Code with Terraform](/docs/learning-hub/resources-as-code/) Learn to define Grafana resources like alert rules in HCL and deploy them with Terraform Beginner 25 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/resources-as-code/01-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Getting started with k6 performance testing](/docs/learning-hub/k6-performance-testing/) Learn to write, run, and analyze k6 performance tests, from your first script to automated baselines that catch slow responses, timeouts, and errors under load with Grafana Cloud. Beginner 37 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/k6-performance-testing/01-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Enable auto-apply in Grafana Adaptive Metrics](/docs/learning-hub/adaptive-metrics-auto-apply/) Turn on auto-apply so Grafana Adaptive Metrics applies new recommendations for you within the mode you choose, after you exempt the metrics and labels whose full detail you need. You can turn it on in the UI, with the API, or with Terraform. Intermediate 12 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/adaptive-metrics-auto-apply/01-intro/01-journey-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Manage your collectors at scale with Fleet Management](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-fleet-management/) Learn to manage and monitor collectors at scale Beginner 30 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-fleet-management/00-intro/01-course-overview/) ![](/static/img/menu/grafana2.svg) Grafana ### [Investigate metrics and logs with Drilldown](/docs/learning-hub/explore-your-data/) Investigate metrics and logs interactively without writing queries. Use Grafana Drilldown apps to navigate your data visually through a point-and-click interface. Beginner 17 min [Start](/docs/learning-hub/explore-your-data/00-intro/01-course-overview/) ### No journeys match those filters. Try removing a filter or clearing everything to see all journeys. Clear filters