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Import rendered mixin dashboards

The Grafana Alloy mixin defines dashboards you can use to monitor collector health, resource use, and internal pipeline metrics. You can import these dashboards from the Grafana Alloy mixin directly into your Grafana instance. The dashboards are available as rendered JSON files in the source repository or in the release archive.

Before you begin

Before you begin, ensure you have the following:

  • Access to a Grafana instance where you can import dashboards.
  • Access to rendered mixin files from one of these sources:
    • The Alloy source repository at operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/.
    • The release archive alloy-mixin-dashboards-<RELEASE_TAG>.zip.
  • A configured Prometheus data source in Grafana for imported dashboards.

Get rendered mixin dashboard files

Choose one source for dashboards:

  • Source repository: Use the rendered dashboard files located in operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/ in your copy or clone of the Alloy repository.
  • Release archive: Download alloy-mixin-dashboards-<RELEASE_TAG>.zip from an Alloy release artifact and extract the archive.

Import dashboards from JSON files

Use the Grafana dashboard import UI to import each rendered dashboard JSON file:

  1. Open Grafana and go to Dashboards.
  2. Click New and then click Import.
  3. Upload a JSON file from operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/ or from the extracted zip archive.
  4. Select the target data source mappings.
  5. Click Import.
  6. Repeat for each dashboard file you want to import.

For full UI details and options, refer to importing dashboards in the Grafana documentation.

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