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title: "What database integrations provide | Grafana Labs"
description: "Capabilities and features of Grafana Cloud database integrations"
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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).

## Metrics, dashboards, and alerts for your database

Database integrations use Grafana Alloy to collect infrastructure-level metrics from your database and send them to Grafana Cloud. Each integration ships with pre-built dashboards and alerts so you can start monitoring immediately.

| Database Observability                           | Integrations                                                             |
|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Query-level performance (which queries are slow) | Infrastructure-level metrics (connections, memory, replication)          |
| MySQL and PostgreSQL only                        | MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database |
| Explain plans, wait events, query samples        | Pre-built dashboards and alerting rules                                  |
| Deep visibility into fewer databases             | Broad coverage across many databases                                     |

## How integrations work

Every database integration follows the same pattern:

1. **Install Grafana Alloy** on a host that can reach your database
2. **Configure the exporter** — Alloy includes a built-in exporter for each database technology
3. **Install dashboards and alerts** — One click from the Connections page in Grafana Cloud

Alloy scrapes metrics from the database exporter and forwards them to Grafana Cloud via Prometheus remote write. Some integrations also collect logs via Loki.

## What’s included

| Integration      | Alerts | Dashboards | Logs |
|------------------|--------|------------|------|
| MongoDB          | 10     | 3          | —    |
| Redis            | 6      | 1          | —    |
| Memcached        | 4      | 1          | —    |
| Apache Cassandra | 8      | 3          | ✓    |
| MySQL            | 15     | 2          | ✓    |
| PostgreSQL       | 19     | 4          | ✓    |
| Oracle Database  | 3      | 1          | ✓    |

## When to use integrations

- Your database isn’t supported by Database Observability (MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Oracle)
- You need infrastructure-level metrics and alerts without query-level detail
- You want a quick setup with pre-built dashboards — most integrations take 15–20 minutes