Grafana Alloy replaces Grafana Agent, Grafana Agent Flow, and promtail with a single programmable OpenTelemetry collector. Here's how it works, how to deploy it, and how to build real pipelines with it.
Opentelemetry
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Alloy: The OpenTelemetry Collector from Grafana -
OpenTelemetry: One Instrumentation to Rule Them All A deep dive into OpenTelemetry: the data model for traces, metrics, and logs; auto-instrumentation for Go, Python, and Node.js; building a Collector pipeline; and exporting to Jaeger, Prometheus, and Loki.
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Distributed Tracing with Tempo and Grafana: From Zero to TraceQL A comprehensive guide to distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo—covering trace storage internals, TraceQL queries, correlating traces with logs and metrics, and production deployment patterns.
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OpenTelemetry in Practice: Instrumentation, the Collector, and Connecting to Your Observability Stack A hands-on guide to OpenTelemetry: auto-instrumentation and manual SDK usage across Python, Go, and Node.js; building a production Collector pipeline with processors and exporters; and wiring traces, metrics, and logs together in Grafana.