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Prerequisites

For hands-on practice

If you’d like to follow along with the learning path exercises, you’ll need:

  • A Grafana Cloud account (sign up free)
  • A running database you want to monitor
  • Access to install Grafana Alloy
  • Database credentials with appropriate monitoring permissions

Just exploring? You can complete the course without hands-on practice. The concepts and decision frameworks are valuable on their own.

Requirements vary by approach

ApproachWhat you’ll need
Database ObservabilityGrafana Alloy 1.14.0+, MySQL 8.0+ or PostgreSQL 14+, a monitoring user with specific privileges
IntegrationsGrafana Alloy, network access to your database, monitoring credentials
TopicWhy it helps
Basic Grafana navigationYou’ll use dashboards and Explore
Terminal or command line basicsAlloy installation uses the CLI
Basic database administrationYou’ll create monitoring users and configure permissions

Script

If you’d like to follow along with the hands-on learning paths, here’s what you’ll need. A Grafana Cloud account, which you can sign up for free. A running database you want to monitor. Access to install Grafana Alloy along with database credentials that have monitoring permissions.

The specific requirements vary by approach. Database Observability needs Grafana Alloy and a recent version of MySQL or PostgreSQL. Integrations also use Grafana Alloy but support a wider range of databases.

If you’re just exploring the concepts, you can complete the course without any hands-on practice. The decision frameworks and approach comparisons are valuable on their own.

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