Grafana Fleet Management + Alloy Configuration

Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/fleet-management/

Remote pipeline distribution to Alloy collectors via OpAMP — author once, target with matchers, hot-apply (no restart).

Prerequisites

• Grafana Cloud stack with Fleet Management enabled
• API token with Fleet Management access (Authorization: Bearer <STACK_ID>:<TOKEN>)
• Alloy ≥ 1.0 installed on the targets (standalone or via grafana/alloy Helm chart)
• alloy CLI locally for alloy fmt syntax validation

Concepts

• Collector — Alloy instance with unique ID + attributes
• Pipeline — named Alloy River config stored in Fleet Management
• Matcher — selector mapping a pipeline to collectors by attribute
• Attributes — key/value labels on a collector (env, team, region)