Grafana Alloy is an open source OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with
built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and
profiles.
What can Alloy do?
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Programmable pipelines: Use a rich expression-based syntax for
configuring powerful observability pipelines.
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OpenTelemetry Collector Distribution: Alloy is a distribution of
OpenTelemetry Collector and supports dozens of its components, alongside new
components that make use of Alloy’s programmable pipelines.
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Big tent: Alloy embraces Grafana’s “big tent” philosophy, where Alloy
can be used with other vendors or open source databases. It has components
to perfectly integrate with multiple telemetry ecosystems:
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Kubernetes-native: Use components to interact with native and custom
Kubernetes resources; no need to learn how to use a separate Kubernetes
operator.
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Shareable pipelines: Use modules to share your pipelines with the
world.
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Automatic workload distribution: Configure Alloy instances to form a
cluster for automatic workload distribution.
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Centralized configuration support: Alloy supports retrieving its
configuration from a server for centralized configuration
management.
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Debugging utilities: Use the built-in UI for visualizing and
debugging pipelines.
Example
otelcol.receiver.otlp "example" {
grpc {
endpoint = "127.0.0.1:4317"
}
output {
metrics = [otelcol.processor.batch.example.input]
logs = [otelcol.processor.batch.example.input]
traces = [otelcol.processor.batch.example.input]
}
}
otelcol.processor.batch "example" {
output {
metrics = [otelcol.exporter.otlp.default.input]
logs = [otelcol.exporter.otlp.default.input]
traces = [otelcol.exporter.otlp.default.input]
}
}
otelcol.exporter.otlp "default" {
client {
endpoint = "my-otlp-grpc-server:4317"
}
}
Getting started
Check out our documentation to see:
Release cadence
A new minor release is planned every three weeks.
Patch releases are published every one to two weeks.
The release cadence is best-effort: if necessary, releases may be performed
outside of this cadence, or a scheduled release date can be moved forwards or
backwards.
Minor releases published on cadence include updating dependencies for upstream
OpenTelemetry Collector code if new versions are available. Minor releases
published outside of the release cadence may not include these dependency
updates.
Patch and security releases may be published at any time.
To engage with the Alloy community:
Contributing
Refer to our contributors guide to learn how to contribute.
Thanks to all the people who have already contributed!
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