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Grafana Alloy

OpenTelemetry collector distribution for all telemetry

Monitoring & Status ★ 3.4k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

Grafana Alloy is a vendor-neutral distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector that gathers logs, metrics, traces, and profiles. It uses a programmable configuration language to build flexible telemetry pipelines.

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Key features

  • Unified telemetry collection
  • OpenTelemetry compatible
  • Programmable pipelines
  • Built-in clustering

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • One agent for all signals
  • Strong Grafana integration

Trade-offs

  • New project replacing Agent
  • Config language to learn

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