Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant: from self-hosted to the cloud in minutes

The Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant is a newly introduced tool designed to simplify the process of moving from self-hosted Grafana instances, such as Grafana OSS or Grafana Enterprise, to Grafana Cloud, eliminating the need for technical expertise in Grafana’s HTTP API or command-line tools. This intuitive tool offers a user-friendly interface that facilitates the migration of dashboards, folders, and data sources, complete with encrypted credentials, in just a few clicks without requiring any coding. Organizations benefit from migrating to Grafana Cloud through advantages such as zero maintenance due to automatic upgrades and security patches, enterprise-grade scalability with extensive metrics and logs retention, a 99.5% uptime SLA with automatic backups, reduced total costs, and access to cloud-exclusive features like Kubernetes Monitoring and Grafana AI capabilities. The migration can be performed using the free assistant available in Grafana 12, which guides users through the process of creating a cloud account, generating a migration token, and securely transferring resources to the cloud.