Grafana How-to: Log in, send data, connect tools, and set up dashboards & alerts | Office Hours

Nov 6, 2026

Grafana Office Hours on Oct 28, 2026: answering questions about getting started with Grafana and the full suite of Grafana Cloud tools.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

3:25 - Where do I actually go to build things?

6:41 - What’s the easiest way to send my data to the cloud?

11:19 - Can I connect data from other tools?

19:20 - How do I build dashboards quickly?

31:06 - How do I get notifications from Grafana?

37:35 - Wrap up

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