How Grafana Cloud Ingests Your Data | Data Sources, Alloy & OTel Explained

This video explains the two primary methods for getting data into Grafana Cloud: connecting to external data sources where data stays in place (like Salesforce, Postgres, CloudWatch) and sending raw telemetry into Grafana's managed databases. It covers Grafana Alloy as the recommended open-source collector that combines OpenTelemetry and Prometheus capabilities, while also mentioning alternatives like the OpenTelemetry collector and direct OTLP ingestion. Ideal for developers and DevOps engineers setting up observability pipelines.