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Release notes for Grafana Alloy
The release notes provide information about deprecations and breaking changes in Grafana Alloy.
For a complete list of changes to Grafana Alloy, with links to pull requests and related issues when available, refer to the Changelog.
v1.5
Breaking change: Change default value of max_streams in otelcol.processor.deltatocumulative
The default value was changed from 0 to 9223372036854775807 (max int).
Breaking change: Change default value of namespace in otelcol.connector.spanmetrics
The default value was changed from "" to "traces.span.metrics".
Breaking change: The component otelcol.exporter.logging has been removed in favor of otelcol.exporter.debug
Both components are very similar. More information can be found in the announcement issue.
Breaking change: Change default value of revision in import.git
The default value was changed from "HEAD" to "main".
Setting the revision to "HEAD", "FETCH_HEAD", "ORIG_HEAD", "MERGE_HEAD" or "CHERRY_PICK_HEAD" is no longer allowed.
v1.4
Breaking change: Some debug metrics for otelcol components have changed
For example, otelcol.exporter.otlp’s exporter_sent_spans_ratio_total metric is now otelcol_exporter_sent_spans_total.
You may need to change your dashboard and alert settings to reference the new metrics.
Refer to each component’s documentation page for more information.
Breaking change: The convert_sum_to_gauge and convert_gauge_to_sum functions in otelcol.processor.transform change context
The convert_sum_to_gauge and convert_gauge_to_sum functions must now be used in the metric context rather than in the datapoint context.
This is due to a change upstream.
Breaking change: Renamed metrics in beyla.ebpf
process.cpu.state is renamed to cpu.mode and beyla_build_info is renamed to beyla_internal_build_info.
v1.3
Breaking change: remotecfg block updated argument name from metadata to attributes
Note
This feature is in Public preview and is not covered by Grafana Alloy backward compatibility guarantees.
The remotecfg block has an updated argument name from metadata to attributes.
v1.2
Breaking change: remotecfg block updated for Agent rename
Note
This feature is in Public preview and is not covered by Grafana Alloy backward compatibility guarantees.
The remotecfg block has been updated to use alloy-remote-config
over agent-remote-config. This change
aligns remotecfg API terminology with Alloy and includes updated endpoints.
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