Aiven for Grafana® quickstart
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To start using Aiven for Grafana®, the first step is to create a service. You can do this in the `Aiven web console <https://console.aiven.io/>`_ or with the `Aiven CLI <https://github.com/aiven/aiven-client>`_.

This quickstart section provides the steps to create an Aiven for Grafana service and how to log in to Aiven for Grafana®. 

Create an Aiven for Grafana service
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1. Log in to the `Aiven Console <https://console.aiven.io/>`_.

2. Follow :doc:`these instructions </docs/platform/howto/create_new_service>` to create a new Aiven for Grafana service.

Once the service is ready, the status changes to *Running*. Depending on your selected cloud provider and region, this generally takes a couple of minutes.

Log in to Grafana
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After starting the Aiven for Grafana service, you can follow these steps to access Grafana:

1. From the `Aiven Console <https://console.aiven.io/>`_, access your Aiven for Grafana service.
2. In the service **Overview** screen, copy or select the **Service URI** to launch the Grafana login page in a browser.
3. On the login page, enter or copy and paste the **User** and **Password** details from the *Connection information* section, and select **Log in**. 

You can begin visualizing your data sources using the default dashboards or create your own.


Grafana resources
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* `Open source Grafana page <https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/>`_

* `Grafana docs <https://grafana.com/docs/>`_

* `Aiven Terraform Provider - Grafana resource docs <https://registry.terraform.io/providers/aiven/aiven/latest/docs/resources/grafana>`_ and `Grafana data source docs <https://registry.terraform.io/providers/aiven/aiven/latest/docs/data-sources/grafana>`_