TEMPLATE.md

title	Do something useful with Grafana Cloud
summary	A one-sentence description of the content.
id	do-something-useful-with-grafana-cloud
categories	administration
tags	beginner
status	Published
authors	grafana_labs
Feedback Link	https://github.com/grafana/tutorials/issues/new
weight	75

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Grafana Cloud combines all the open source goodness of Grafana with other open source tools like Loki and Tempo and then provides the suite as a managed service.

In this tutorial, you'll:

• Connect a data source of your choosing to Grafana Cloud
• Do something else that is amazing and useful

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Prerequisites

• A Grafana Cloud account
• A data source {{% /class %}}

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1. Create a Grafana Cloud account following the Grafana Cloud quickstart instructions
2. Log in and go to some location in the UI
3. Click ButtonName to provide spam and eggs to all users

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To configure the parrot sketch, create a configuration like this:

config sample here

Make sure to replace live placeholder with dead for the sketch to work.

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1. Remember to number every step with one since the build process automatically numbers them.
2. This way it is not necessary to renumber steps if one is added.

After completing these steps you will be ready to summarize.

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In this tutorial you learned how to use Grafana Cloud to do something interesting and useful. This involved:

• This thing
• And this as well
• And also this one

Learn more

• Grafana Cloud

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