Send metrics to Grafana Cloud using Prometheus remote write

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides best practices for sending Prometheus data to Grafana Cloud.

Prometheus is an open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit that captures metrics as time series data and optional key-value pairs called labels. Prometheus scrapes metrics from instrumented jobs, either directly or by way of an intermediary push gateway for short-lived jobs. It stores all scraped samples locally and runs rules over this data to either aggregate and record new time series from existing data, or generate alerts.

This journey teaches you how to configure your Prometheus server to send metrics so that you can query, drill down, and visualize them in Grafana Cloud.

Here’s what to expect

When you complete this journey, you’ll be able to:

1. Verify that your self-managed Prometheus server is capturing metrics
2. Configure Prometheus to send metrics to Grafana Cloud
3. Verify that metrics appear in Grafana Metrics Drilldown

Before you begin

Before you send Prometheus metrics to Grafana Cloud, ensure that you have:

• Experience working with Prometheus and understand its basic set up and operation.
• Downloaded, installed, and configured Prometheus to collect metrics.
• Access to the machine on which Prometheus is installed and that your user has root privileges.