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?
Programmable pipelines: Use a rich expression-based syntax for configuring powerful
observability pipelines.
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.
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:
- OpenTelemetry Collector
Prometheus
Grafana Loki
* Grafana Pyroscope
Shareable pipelines: Use modules to share your pipelines with the world.
Automatic workload distribution: Configure Alloy instances to form a cluster for
automatic workload distribution.
Centralized configuration support: Alloy supports retrieving its configuration
from a server for centralized configuration management.
Debugging utilities: Use the built-in UI for visualizing and debugging pipelines.
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