Migrate from Grafana OSS/Enterprise to Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Enterprise
Grafana OSS
Migrate from Grafana OSS/Enterprise to Grafana Cloud
Migrate from Grafana OSS/Enterprise to Grafana Cloud
Migrate from Grafana OSS/Enterprise to Grafana Cloud
When you decide to migrate from your self-managed Grafana instance to Grafana Cloud, you can benefit from the convenience of a managed observability platform, additional cloud-only features, and robust security. There are a couple of key approaches to help you transition to Grafana Cloud.
Migration type
Tools used
Availability
Migratable resources
Manual
Command line utilities
The Grafana HTTP API
Generally available in all versions of Grafana OSS/Enterprise
The entire Grafana instance
Automated
The Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant
Available in public preview from Grafana v11.2 using the onPremToCloudMigrations feature toggle. This toggle is enabled by default in Grafana v11.5 and later.
Dashboards
Folders
Data sources
App Plugins
Panel Plugins
Library Panels
Grafana Alerting resources
Our detailed migration guide explains the key steps and scripts to manually migrate your resources to Grafana Cloud, covering a comprehensive set of resources in your Grafana instance. Alternatively, the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant, available in public preview in Grafana v11.2 and later, automates the migration process across a broad range of Grafana resources. You can use the migration assistant to migrate a large proportion of your Grafana resources and then, if needed, leverage the migration guide to migrate the rest.
