Grafana Alloy Has a Free Telemetry Collector — OpenTelemetry Made Simple

Observability Pipelines Are a Mess You have Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces. Each needs its own collector. Prometheus needs prometheus.yml, Loki needs promtail, Tempo needs the OTel collector. Three configs, three binaries, three things to maintain. Grafana Alloy: One Collector for Everything Grafana Alloy is a single binary that collects metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. It replaces Prometheus Agent, Promtail, and the OpenTelemetry Collector — all at once. Free and Open Source Apache 2.0 license — use anywhere Single binary — one process, one config OpenTelemetry native — OTLP in, OTLP out Prometheus compatible — scrape any Prometheus target One Config, All Telemetry // Collect metrics prometheus . scrape "app" { targets = [{ __address__ = "localhost:8080" }] forward_to = [ prometheus . remote_write . grafana_cloud . receiver ] } // Collect logs local . file_match "app_logs" { path_targets = [{ __path__ = "/var/log/app/*.log" }] } loki . source . file "logs"