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Grafana Alloy is the new name for our distribution of the OTel collector. Grafana Agent has been deprecated and is in Long-Term Support (LTS) through October 31, 2025. Grafana Agent will reach an End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. 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.
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Grafana Agent Flow
Grafana Agent Flow is a component-based revision of Grafana Agent with a focus on ease-of-use, debuggability, and ability to adapt to the needs of power users.
Components allow for reusability, composability, and focus on a single task.
- Reusability allows for the output of components to be reused as the input for multiple other components.
- Composability allows for components to be chained together to form a pipeline.
- Single task means the scope of a component is limited to one narrow task and thus has fewer side effects.
Features
- Write declarative configurations with a Terraform-inspired configuration language.
- Declare components to configure parts of a pipeline.
- Use expressions to bind components together to build a programmable pipeline.
- Includes a UI for debugging the state of a pipeline.
Example
river
// Discover Kubernetes pods to collect metrics from.
discovery.kubernetes "pods" {
role = "pod"
}
// Scrape metrics from Kubernetes pods and send to a prometheus.remote_write
// component.
prometheus.scrape "default" {
targets = discovery.kubernetes.pods.targets
forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.default.receiver]
}
// Get an API key from disk.
local.file "apikey" {
filename = "/var/data/my-api-key.txt"
is_secret = true
}
// Collect and send metrics to a Prometheus remote_write endpoint.
prometheus.remote_write "default" {
endpoint {
url = "http://localhost:9009/api/prom/push"
basic_auth {
username = "MY_USERNAME"
password = local.file.apikey.content
}
}
}
Next steps
- Learn about the core concepts of Grafana Agent Flow.
- Follow our tutorials to get started with Grafana Agent Flow.
- Learn how to use Grafana Agent Flow’s configuration language.
- Check out our reference documentation to find specific information you might be looking for.
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