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== Getting started with infrastructure monitoring

To get started with the Infrastructure app in Kibana, you need to start collecting metrics data for your infrastructure.

Kibana provides step-by-step instructions to help you add metrics data.
The {infra-guide}[Infrastructure Monitoring Guide] is a good source for more detailed information and instructions.

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image::infrastructure/images/metrics-add-data.png[Screenshot showing Add metric data to Kibana UI]