Alloy – One Agent for Logs, Metrics & Traces
Unified, declarative, and GitOps-ready.
Alloy is the modern telemetry agent from Grafana Labs – flexible in deployment, efficient to manage.
Alloy: A Single Agent for All Your Telemetry
Open Source
Collect, transform, and forward logs, metrics, and traces – all through one central agent.
- Automated configuration – ideal for GitOps & IaC
- Scraping, parsing, transforming & routing
- Runs on nodes, in containers, or as a sidecar
Benefits of Alloy
- Unified agent for logs, metrics, and traces
- Declarative configuration for easy maintenance
- Flexible deployment: bare metal, VMs, Kubernetes, containers
- Code-managed setup – perfect for GitOps environments
Use Cases
- Log collection from systemd, Docker, Kubernetes, or files
- Forwarding to Loki, Grafana Cloud, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Prometheus-compatible metric scraping & enrichment
- Trace forwarding to OpenTelemetry-compatible backends
Part of Our Managed Monitoring
Alloy is a core component of our monitoring stack, and can be used as an all-in-one agent for logs, metrics, and traces.
We take care of:
- Selecting & configuring your telemetry pipelines
- Deploying & operating Alloy on your systems
- Monitoring & troubleshooting the agents themselves
Benefit from a modern, maintainable setup without agent sprawl.
Compatible Backends
- Logs: Loki, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Metrics: Prometheus
- Traces: Grafana Tempo, OTLP-compatible systems
