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title: "Advantages of Prometheus remote write | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn about the advantages of remote write and when you should use it"
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# Advantages of Prometheus remote write

Grafana Cloud offers several ways to get metrics in. Prometheus `remote_write` is the method built into Prometheus for sending samples from a server you already run. You add one block to the Prometheus configuration, and Prometheus pushes the samples it scrapes to Grafana Cloud Metrics. Watch video ->

Consider using Prometheus remote write if you:

- Already collect metrics with Prometheus and prefer to keep managing that deployment.
- Want to send only a subset of your metrics to Grafana Cloud, for example for a proof of concept or for the metrics of certain teams or projects.
- Want to keep the same metrics in both your Prometheus server and Grafana Cloud for redundancy.

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### More to explore (optional)

- [What is Prometheus?](/docs/grafana-cloud/introduction/what-is-observability/prometheus/)
- [Ways to connect your data to Grafana Cloud](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/metrics/#ways-to-connect-your-data-to-grafana-cloud)