Quick Start Guide
Onboard with Levitate, create your first cluster, and start writing metrics data under just two minutes
Levitate takes under two minutes to sign up and get started. After signing up, you can create a cluster, grab a remote write URL, and plug it into your existing Prometheus or OpenTelemetry agents, and send metrics to Levitate.
Here is a walkthrough to sign up, create your first Levitate cluster, and get a fully functional managed time series database and Grafana in under two minutes.
Sign up on Levitate
Sign up via your Google/Microsoft Business account here.
Note that Levitate only allows work/business email accounts to sign up. Using personal emails is not allowed. You can use GitHub login for personal emails instead.
Set up Levitate Cluster
Provide details of the cluster you are creating:
- Region → Asia/Mumbai(ap-south-1) OR Europe/Frankfurt(eu-west-1) OR North America/Virginia(us-east-2)
- Cluster Name → Identify your cluster with a name
- Description → Some additional info on what purpose this cluster serves
Copy the Read and Write Token
Once you hit Create
, Levitate automatically creates a token to access the
metrics data. Just copy it and store in a secure place to be used in Prometheus
or OpenTelemetry configurations.
Start writing data to Levitate
Copy the Write Configuration and paste it to your Prometheus remote write config. Then, reload Prometheus to start sending data to your Levitate cluster.
Start reading data from Levitate
Use Managed Grafana, part of Levitate, or read our How to configure Grafana for Levitate guide.
With these simple steps, you have a fully operational Levitate cluster to be used as a metrics database. Invite your team members to Levitate, create new clusters, or set up alerts.