Grafana Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring

Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/

K8s + host + container + cloud-provider telemetry, mostly via the grafana/k8s-monitoring Helm chart or Alloy.

Prerequisites

• Grafana Cloud stack with Prometheus / Loki / Tempo endpoints + API key (metrics:write, logs:write, traces:write)
• For Kubernetes: a cluster + helm 3.x + kubectl context pointing at it
• For hosts / Docker: Alloy installed on the node

Common Workflows

1. Onboard a Kubernetes cluster (k8s-monitoring chart)