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title: "Hands-on exercise summary | Grafana Labs"
description: "Summary of skills from the Database Observability learning paths"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Hands-on exercise summary

**What you accomplished:**

- Deployed Grafana Alloy with the Database Observability component
- Configured your database connection with monitoring credentials
- Verified that query-level data flows to Grafana Cloud
- Explored the Queries Overview dashboard

**Skills unlocked:**

| Skill            | You can now…                                                     |
|------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Query visibility | Find the slowest queries across your databases                   |
| Explain plans    | See how the database executes each query and where time is spent |
| Wait events      | Identify lock contention, I/O bottlenecks, and resource waits    |
| Query samples    | Inspect individual query executions with timing                  |

## What’s next

- **Try another database** — Go back to [MySQL](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/02-database-observability/08-mysql-db-olly/) or [PostgreSQL](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-db-olly/02-database-observability/09-postgresql-db-olly/) if you want to set up a second database
- **Continue to integrations** — Learn how to monitor databases that aren’t supported by Database Observability
- **Browse the docs** — Explore the [Database Observability documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/database-observability/) for advanced configuration