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Collect and forward data with Grafana Alloy
- Choose a Grafana Alloy component
- Set up meta-monitoring to collect Alloy telemetry
- Receive traces and metrics from Datadog-instrumented applications
- Collect Kubernetes logs and forward them to Loki
- Collect Azure Event Hubs logs and forward them to Loki
- Collect Prometheus metrics
- Collect OpenTelemetry data and forward it to any OpenTelemetry-compatible endpoint
- Collect OpenTelemetry data and forward to Grafana
- Collect Amazon Elastic Container Service or AWS Fargate OpenTelemetry data
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