# Grafana Cloud Connector

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> OpenTelemetry Collector connector · contrib distribution

- **Component ID**: `contrib-grafanacloudconnector`
- **Name**: `grafanacloudconnector`
- **Type**: connector
- **Distribution**: contrib
- **Repository**: `opentelemetry-collector-contrib`

## Stability

| Level | Signals |
| --- | --- |
| alpha | traces_to_metrics |

## Internal telemetry

| Metric | Type | Value type | Unit | Stability | Enabled | Attributes | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `grafanacloud_datapoint_count` | sum (monotonic) | int | 1 | development | yes |  | Number of datapoints sent to Grafana Cloud |
| `grafanacloud_flush_count` | sum (monotonic) | int | 1 | development | yes |  | Number of metrics flushes |
| `grafanacloud_host_count` | gauge | int | 1 | development | yes |  | Number of unique hosts |

## Data

- **JSON (latest)**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-grafanacloudconnector/latest.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-grafanacloudconnector/latest.json)
- **JSON (pinned)**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-grafanacloudconnector/contrib-grafanacloudconnector-2785db1e0308.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-grafanacloudconnector/contrib-grafanacloudconnector-2785db1e0308.json)
- **Explore**: [/collector/components/contrib/grafanacloudconnector](/collector/components/contrib/grafanacloudconnector)