Introducing Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud is a hosted platform-as-a-service observability tool. It offers the ability to quickly create infrastructure to receive and store log, metric, and trace data as well as tools to visualize the data. We are using Grafana Cloud to reduce the technical skill needed to engage with this book, although all the open source components from Grafana that we will introduce can be deployed locally as well.
Grafana Cloud offers free access. In this chapter, we will first set up a cloud account and familiarize ourselves with the administration and use of the tools.
Important note
Grafana Labs introduces changes on a regular basis. The information and screenshots in this chapter are based on Grafana version 10.2, which was released in October 2023.
Setting up an account
Creating a free Grafana Cloud account is simple. To do this, follow these steps:
- Go to https://www.grafana.com and click on Create Free Account.
- Sign up using any of...
