This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Srinivasulu Paranduru
1.What is Grafana Cloud?
- Grafana Cloud is a fully managed cloud-hosted observability platform ideal for cloud native environments.
- Grafana Cloud is a tightly integrated stack for metrics, logs, and traces unified within the best dashboarding platform for visualizing data.
2.Powered by open source : Grafana Cloud is built on Grafana Labs’ leading open source software
- Grafana dashboards: Get unlimited dashboards managed for you in a dedicated Grafana instance. Plus, gain instant access to new features thanks to seamless upgrades to the latest releases.
- Metrics: Bring together raw, unsampled metrics for all your applications and infrastructure, no matter where they live, in one place.
- Logs: Discover root causes faster with our high-performance log aggregation and storage system powered by Grafana Loki.
- Traces: Leverage our highly scalable, cost-effective distributed tracing system that is powered by Grafana Tempo and compatible with OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, and Jaeger.
- Grafana Alloy: Simplify deployment and management of your telemetry data with Grafana Alloy, a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines.
Step by Step Approach for creation of Grafana Cloud Account
Your observability stack, faster and easier
- With Grafana Cloud, enable observability — from operational dashboards to a fully centralized system and everything in between — without the overhead of building and maintaining your own stack.
1.Browse to grafana.com and click on create account
2.Enter email and password to create account. Also highlighted free features for reference.
3.Then Activation code will be sent to the email id mentioned
- Copy the activation code from your email and paste below as per screenshot then continue
4.Based on firstname & lastname, stack url will be formed and if you want you can change it
- Also select Deployment Region , which is closer to you
- I have changed the stack name
5.Your Grafana Cloud is ready
- Click on Get Started
- By default it comes 15 days free trail will all features
Conclusion: Step by step approach of provisioning for creation of Grafana Cloud Account
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Srinivasulu Paranduru