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Grafana Cloud Database Observability — query-level performance insights for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Covers setup with Grafana Alloy, query samples, visual explain plans, RED metrics, pg_stat_statements and Performance Schema integration, and correlation with application traces. Use when monitoring database performance, diagnosing slow queries, setting up database observability for MySQL or PostgreSQL (self-managed, RDS, Aurora, Azure, Cloud SQL), or correlating DB metrics with APM data.
Grafana Cloud cost management — usage monitoring, cost attribution by label, usage alerts, invoice management, and optimization strategies. Covers Adaptive Metrics (cardinality reduction), Adaptive Logs (log filtering), cost attribution labels, and the FOCUS-compliant billing application. Use when analyzing Grafana Cloud spending, setting up cost alerts, attributing costs to teams, reducing metric/log cardinality, or forecasting observability budgets.
Set up, configure, and troubleshoot Grafana Cloud integrations for AWS, Azure, and other cloud providers. Use when the user asks to connect AWS CloudWatch, set up Azure Monitor, configure Confluent Cloud observability, install a Grafana integration, set up hosted exporters, use AWS Firehose for CloudWatch logs, or troubleshoot a cloud integration. Triggers on phrases like "AWS CloudWatch", "Azure Monitor", "Confluent integration", "cloud integration", "hosted exporter", "AWS Firehose", "install integration", "cloud metrics", or "cloud logs".
Diagnostic guide for active Prometheus cardinality problems — slow queries, OOMing Prometheus, high Grafana Cloud Active Series or DPM bills, "too many samples" ingest errors, series churn, or rapid memory growth. Walks through tsdb status endpoints, per-metric and per-label drill-downs, common-culprit galleries, and remediation paths. Use when the user is *currently experiencing* a cardinality fire. For preventing cardinality issues at the source, route to prometheus-label-strategy. For post-ingest aggregation, route to adaptive-metrics. For DPM-specific analysis, route to dpm-finder.
Grafana Cloud infrastructure monitoring — Kubernetes monitoring, cloud provider integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP), host and container monitoring, infrastructure dashboards, and collector setup. Use when setting up Kubernetes monitoring, connecting cloud provider metrics, configuring node exporter or cAdvisor, setting up infrastructure dashboards, or using the k8s-monitoring Helm chart.
Sending telemetry data to Grafana Cloud — metrics via Prometheus remote write or OTLP, logs via Loki push or Alloy, traces via OTLP to Tempo, profiles via Pyroscope. Covers Alloy-based pipelines, direct SDK/agent integrations, cloud integrations catalog, and credentials management. Use when connecting an application or infrastructure to Grafana Cloud, setting up data ingestion, configuring remote write, or choosing between ingestion methods.