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This section contains information about the components in Grafana that are used to monitor and visualize the metrics that are stored in a Prometheus database.
Data sources are Grafana's links to the different storage databases that Grafana supports. Grafana contains out-of-the-box support to connect to many time-series databases (including Prometheus) that you can use to monitor and visualize the metrics in your Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment. Grafana refers to a connection to this type of database as a data source.
By adding a data source for a time-series database in Grafana, Grafana can retrieve, analyze, monitor, and visualize the metrics that are stored in the database.