Grafana Alloy

Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/

OpenTelemetry-compatible collector — one binary for metrics + logs + traces + profiles.

Prerequisites

• alloy CLI installed (brew install grafana/grafana/alloy, apt install alloy, or grafana/alloy Docker image)
• An endpoint to ship to (Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope)
• API key + username for that endpoint, exported as GRAFANA_API_KEY etc.

Common Workflows

1. Write + validate a config locally