Documentation Grafana Cloud Instrument and send data Fleet Management Introduction

Introduction to Fleet Management

Grafana Fleet Management is a Grafana Cloud feature that enables you to manage collector deployments at scale.

Streamlined configuration management. With a central control hub, you can easily manage configurations across all collectors. Create, activate, deactivate, or adjust configuration pipelines remotely without complex scripts or time-consuming change management processes, all from the Grafana Cloud interface.

Centralized health monitoring. You have complete visibility into the health of your collector fleet. View out-of-the-box dashboards that track metrics for component health, system resources, and deployment infrastructure. Troubleshoot more efficiently and identify issues with individual collectors more quickly.

Cost and collection control. Tailor data collection pipelines to match specific use cases and ensure observability data stays focused on what’s most important. Turn data streams on and off as needed to optimize your costs and reduce data overload.

Key features

Fleet Management offers these key features to help teams manage large numbers of collector instances in Grafana Cloud. If you’d like to use Fleet Management in a self-managed enterprise or on-premises environment, refer to the set up instructions.

Inventory

From the Inventory tab, you can see a list of your registered collectors. The collector list shows the health status, Alloy version, operating system, and attributes for each collector. You can change which columns are displayed in the list and how they’re ordered. Filter the list by attribute or run a search for any of the other list parameters. Select multiple collectors at once to bulk edit remote attributes.

The Inventory tab is where you can monitor the health of your registered collectors. Check the health status of your fleet at a glance or click on any collector row to see its details view. From here, you can see vital information about your collector, including health metrics, internal logs, alerts, and its assigned attributes and remote configuration.

The Fleet Management service doesn’t come with out-of-the-box alerts, but it fetches user-created alerts from the Grafana Prometheus instance. Create alerts in your stack’s Prometheus Alertmanager to make them discoverable by the health status check and visible in the collector details view.

Remote configuration

The Remote configuration tab is where you can create, edit, activate, and delete configuration pipelines. Build your pipeline, test the pipeline syntax, and then add matching attributes to assign the configuration pipeline to collectors. To learn more, refer to Configuration pipelines.

You can also view, search, and edit your existing configuration pipelines and their matching attributes. Activate or deactivate a pipeline with a click of the switch.

If you need to view changes to configuration pipelines, use the Pipelines history view to find changes to all pipelines or click on the Pipeline history icon for a specific pipeline to see only its changes.