Grafana Alloy Has a Free Telemetry Collector — OpenTelemetry + Prometheus in One Agent

Grafana Alloy is a vendor-neutral telemetry collector that combines OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. What You Get for Free Metrics — Prometheus scraping + remote write Logs — collect and forward logs (Loki, Elasticsearch) Traces — OpenTelemetry traces collection Profiles — continuous profiling (Pyroscope) River configuration — declarative, programmable config language Component architecture — mix and match collection pipelines Discovery — Kubernetes, Docker, Consul service discovery Transformations — filter, relabel, sample, aggregate Multiple backends — send to Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Datadog Quick Start # Install sudo apt install alloy # Or Docker docker run -v alloy-config:/etc/alloy grafana/alloy:latest # config.alloy — scrape Prometheus metrics prometheus.scrape "default" { targets = [{ "__address__" = "localhost:9090" }] forward_to = [ prometheus.remote_write.grafana_cloud.receiver] } prometheus.remote_write "grafana_cloud" { endpoint { url = "https://prometheus-xxx.