A guide on how to setup Grafana Cloud

Setting up Grafana Cloud

This guide will help you set up a free Grafana Cloud account.

• First go to Grafana and click “Create free account”
• Configure your account and log in details
• Once you create your account log in and click the “My Account” tab
• This will show you an overview of your resources

Getting basic monitoring on your first device

Now that you have a Grafana Cloud account set up we can now start gathering metrics. For this example we will be installing Grafana Agent on a linux machine.

Installing Grafana Agent

• From the Grafana Cloud home page, navagate to your Grafana instance.
• On the left hand side there is a tab called “Onboarding -> Walkthrough”
• Once there click the “Grafana Agent” option
• Now you can select the type of device you would like to monitor
• In this example I am setting up monitoring on a linux server
• After selecting Linux Server it will give you 2 commands to run on your server
  • sudo ARCH=amd64 GCLOUD_STACK_ID="265053" GCLOUD_API_KEY="{cloudapikey}" GCLOUD_API_URL="{cloudapiurl}" /bin/sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/agent/release/production/grafanacloud-install.sh)"
  • sudo systemctl restart grafana-agent.service
  • Note that the commands you get will have the cloud_api_key and cloud_api_url autofilled in
• Once you run those commands click the “Test integration and finish installation”

The Grafana Agent is now running and sending metrics to prometheus!