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Grafana integrations

Integrations bundle Grafana Alloy configuration snippets, tailored Grafana dashboards, and alerting defaults for common observability targets like Linux hosts, Kubernetes clusters, and Nginx servers. With Grafana integrations, you can get a pre-configured Prometheus and Grafana-based observability stack up and running in minutes.

Refer to Install and manage integrations to learn how to use integrations.

Refer to Integrations reference for the current list of integrations.

A Prometheus-based observability stack generally consists of the following core components:

  • Exporters that expose metrics for your apps and infrastructure, generally on a /metrics endpoint. Node Exporter is an example of a Prometheus exporter that publishes hardware and OS metrics exposed by *NIX (UNIX, Linux, etc.) kernels.
  • Scrapers like Prometheus and Alloy that collect, store or ship metrics data published by exporters.
  • Time-series databases for observability data like Prometheus that aggregate and store metrics data, and allow you to efficiently query it.
  • A visualization tool like Grafana that you can use to build dashboards, dashboard alerts, and tables to act on metrics and logs.
  • An alerting tool like Grafana Cloud Alerting that evaluates and alerts on Prometheus-style rules.

Configuring, installing, connecting, and maintaining all of these components often involves significant domain knowledge and can be tedious and time consuming. Grafana integrations offer you a fast and easy way to get started with minimal effort.

There are currently many Grafana integrations for common data sources such as Linux machines, databases, applications, and more.

Note

Integrations are built with a curated set of default metrics and pre-configured Grafana dashboards, driven by Alloy deployed into your environment. As a result, integrations are specifically optimized to be coupled with Alloy and may not work with your local Prometheus, Graphite, and Loki services out-of-the-box.