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Manage fleets on premises

Grafana Fleet Management is a Grafana Cloud feature, but you can use it to manage enterprise or on-premises setups where a connection to Grafana Cloud is possible.

Create a free Grafana Cloud account

Sign up for a free Grafana Cloud account and set up your stack. With the free plan, you can collect internal telemetry to monitor your collectors and add configuration pipelines to remotely configure them.

Register your collectors

Once your stack is ready, you need to onboard your collectors to Fleet Management. Fleet Management works only with Grafana Alloy collectors. The Fleet Management service automatically creates self-monitoring pipelines the first time you access the interface after registering your Alloy instances. Refer to Self-monitoring pipelines for more information.

Configure your collectors

Remote configuration is a key feature of Fleet Management, but the content of configuration pipelines isn’t prescribed. You can export your data wherever you choose, even if it’s outside Grafana Cloud.

Self-monitoring pipelines

The Fleet Management interface offers a centralized location to monitor the health of your entire collector fleet. Click on any registered collector in the Inventory tab to see health dashboards and logs. The telemetry that powers this feature comes from self-monitoring configuration pipelines that collect internal metrics and logs. These pipelines are automatically created and activated the first time you access Fleet Management after registering your collectors. If you don’t want to monitor your collectors, you can disable the pipelines in the Remote configuration tab in the Fleet Management interface.

Integrations

Fleet Management supports many Grafana Cloud integrations. You can use these integrations to configure your collectors, but you’ll need to modify the pipeline to export the telemetry to an internal, on-premises data sink instead of Grafana Cloud.

Custom pipelines

You can create custom pipelines to remotely configure your collectors, but as with integrations, make sure the export component points to your on-premises backend.

Air-gapped environments

There is currently no native solution for air-gapped environments. Fleet Management support for private data source connect is under active development. In the meantime, you can create an arbitrary proxy that allows connections only to the API endpoints of Fleet Management and leverage the remotecfg proxy arguments to secure your connections.