Sandboxes & Quickstarts

quick-starting Grafana

resources to sandbox and quick-start Grafana

Sandboxes

• play.grafana.org

  • grafana's public sandbox. a great place to try out features or mock up a problem.

Quickstarts

• Grafana News (self-hosted)

  • a batteries-included sample web application + grafana + loki + prometheus. Deploy everything with a single docker-compose up. You can then follow this Fundamentals tutorial to set everything up.

• Grafana News (Grafana Cloud)

  • Complete the same Grafana News tutorial without running anything locally or configuring any services. Just create a free Grafana Cloud account and then follow this cloud-friendly tutorial version. When you're done you'll have a Grafana Cloud instance with a working Loki and Prometheus datasource. You'll configure some alerts as well.

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