Grafana Alloy is an open source OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Grafana Alloy is Grafana Labs’ distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. It is an OTLP-compatible collector with built-in Prometheus optimizations that also support signals across metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Alloy was started at Grafana Labs and announced at GrafanaCON in 2024. The mission of the project is to create the best “big tent” collector that’s compatible with the most popular open-source observability ecosystems and includes enterprise-grade features to simplify operating at scale in a modern cloud-native infrastructure.
Features
- Processes and transforms observability data streams
- Integrates seamlessly with Grafana dashboards
- Supports custom rules and pipelines for data enrichment
- Real-time data handling for live metrics
- Compatible with Prometheus and other data sources
- Optimized for high-throughput environments