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1.1. Check your setup

Step 1: Log on to Grafana​

You've been given access to a Grafana Cloud instance for the purposes of this workshop.

  1. Go to the Grafana URL that you have been given (usually: https://xxxxx.grafana.net).

  2. If you are presented with a choice of sign-in options, click Sign in with SSO.

  3. At the Grafana Labs Workshops login screen, enter the username (not email) and password that you were given by your instructor.

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    If you didn't receive a username and password, please speak to your friendly instructor!

Step 2: Open the web UI for your Alloy instance​

Each workshop participant will have a single instance of Grafana Alloy connected to their Grafana Cloud stack via Fleet Management. This Alloy instance is a Kubernetes pod and will have the necessary RBAC permissions to ingest the needed telemetry.

  1. On the home page of your Grafana stack, open the link for Alloy UI

  2. Click the Sign win with Keycloak OIDC button and login with your same credentials as above if prompted.

  3. Take a look around the Alloy web UI. This will be the Alloy instance you interact with for the remainder of the workshop.

Step 3: Open the QuickPizza App​

  1. On the home page of your Grafana stack, open the link for QuickPizza App

  2. Take a spin through the app and make some pizza recipes!

  3. (Optional) Click Love It! for all the recipes containing pineapple.

Wrapping up​

In this module, you learned:

  • how to log on to your Grafana Cloud instance
  • how to access the web UI for your personal Alloy instance
  • how to access the QuickPizza demo app

With your access to lab environment confirmed, let's start exploring and build some pipelines.

Click on the next module below to proceed.