Caution
Grafana Agent has reached End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. Agent is no longer receiving vendor support and will no longer receive security or bug fixes. Current users of Agent Static mode, Agent Flow mode, and Agent Operator should proceed with migrating to Grafana Alloy. If you have already migrated to Alloy, no further action is required. Read more about why we recommend migrating to Grafana Alloy.
Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
Grafana Agent Operator (Beta)
The Grafana Agent Operator is a Kubernetes operator that makes it easier to deploy the Grafana Agent and collect telemetry data from your pods. It is currently in Beta, and is subject to change at any time.
It works by watching for Kubernetes custom resources that specify how you would like to collect telemetry data from your Kubernetes cluster and where you would like to send it. They abstract Kubernetes-specific configuration that is more tedious to perform manually. The Grafana Agent Operator manages corresponding Grafana Agent deployments in your cluster by watching for changes against the custom resources.
Metric collection is based on the Prometheus Operator and supports the official v1 ServiceMonitor, PodMonitor, and Probe CRDs from the project. These custom resources represent abstractions for monitoring services, pods, and ingresses. They are especially useful for Helm users, where manually writing a generic SD to match all your charts can be difficult (or impossible!) or where manually writing a specific SD for each chart can be tedious.
