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Prometheus is an open source systems monitoring system for which Grafana provides out-of-the-box support. This topic walks you through the steps to create a series of dashboards in Grafana to display system metrics for a server monitored by Prometheus.
You can also configure a [Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/) instance to display system metrics without having to host Grafana yourself.
> **Note:** You can configure a [Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/) instance to display system metrics without having to host Grafana yourself. A [free forever plan](https://grafana.com/signup/cloud/connect-account?pg=gsdocs) provides 10,000 active series for metrics.
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The following image shows a dashboard with three panels showing some system metrics.
<img width="850px" src="/static/img/docs/getting-started/simple_grafana_prom_dashboard.png" caption="Prometheus dashboards" >
To learn more:
- Grafana documentation: [Prometheus data source]({{< relref "../datasources/prometheus.md" >}})
- Prometheus documentation: [What is Prometheus?](https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/)