alloy

Project Overview

Grafana Alloy is an open-source OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. It uses a rich expression-based syntax for configuring powerful observability pipelines.

Key Features

• Programmable pipelines: Use expression-based syntax for powerful observability pipelines
• OpenTelemetry Collector distribution: Supports dozens of OpenTelemetry Collector components
• Multi-ecosystem integration: Integrates with OpenTelemetry Collector, Prometheus, Grafana Loki, and Grafana Pyroscope
• Kubernetes-native: Interact with native and custom Kubernetes resources
• Shareable pipelines: Share pipelines via modules
• Automatic workload distribution: Form clusters for automatic workload distribution
• Centralized configuration: Retrieve configuration from a server
• Debugging utilities: Built-in UI for visualizing and debugging pipelines

Target Audience

• Observability engineers and DevOps teams
• Teams needing unified monitoring of metrics, logs, traces, and profiles
• Kubernetes platform engineers

Quick Start

1. Check the Installation guide
2. Follow the Getting Started guide
3. Browse the components list
4. Configure programmable pipelines

Core Advantages

• Programmable pipelines for maximum flexibility
• Kubernetes-native with seamless integration
• Active maintenance with releases every three weeks
• Open-source and free, backed by the Grafana ecosystem

System Requirements

• OS: Cross-platform
• Architectures: x86_64, arm64
• Additional Dependencies: None