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Section 5 · Alloy in Grafana Cloud

Where you find Alloy install options in Grafana Cloud and choose a collector type

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Where you deploy Alloy in Grafana Cloud

In the Grafana Cloud menu, go to Connections > Collector Setup. This is where you install Alloy and choose how it runs. Grafana Cloud integrations use Alloy to monitor specific systems by collecting metrics and, when configured, logs.

Choosing a collector type

Collector Setup offers two collector types in the Cloud UI:

  • Alloy: installs the Alloy collector and uses the Alloy configuration syntax you learned to read in this journey.
  • OpenTelemetry: installs OpenTelemetry Collector and uses standard OpenTelemetry Collector configuration instead of Alloy syntax.

Both collector types can collect OpenTelemetry data. The difference is which collector binary runs and which configuration syntax you write, Alloy syntax, or standard OpenTelemetry Collector YAML.