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Where you deploy Alloy in Grafana Cloud

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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.

Manage collectors with Fleet Management

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Manage collectors with Fleet Management

Running a single Alloy collector is straighforward. As you deploy more Alloy collectors, keeping every host’s configuration in sync becomes hard. Grafana Fleet Management is a Grafana Cloud feature for managing collector deployments at scale.

What Fleet Management gives you

With Fleet Management, you can:

Manage configurations across collectors from a central hub
Create and adjust collector configuration remotely, which Fleet Management calls pipelines
View health dashboards for your fleet

Where to find it

In the Grafana Cloud menu, go to Connections > Fleet Management, then open the Inventory tab to view collectors that have connected to Fleet Management. If no collectors appear yet, that’s expected. Fleet Management becomes useful once Alloy is installed and connected.

Choose your signal

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Choose your signal

Choose the signal you want to collect next, then open the collection docs to go deeper.

Metrics: Numeric measurements collected over time that give a high-level picture of system state.

Collect Prometheus metrics
Logs: Timestamped text records of discrete events.

Collect logs with Alloy
Traces: A map of a single request as it moves through distributed services.

Set up traces with Alloy
Profiles: Code-level data that shows which functions consume CPU and memory.

Send profile data

Resources and next steps

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Resources and next steps

Use these resources for hands-on practice, reference docs, and places to ask questions.

Workshops and examples

Grafana Alloy for Beginners playlist: a video series from concepts through infrastructure and application pipelines
Grafana Alloy for Beginners workshop repo: a Docker-based learning environment used with the playlist
alloy-scenarios: self-contained runnable examples for logs, metrics, traces, and more

Alloy in Grafana Cloud on Grafana Labs

Where you deploy Alloy in Grafana Cloud

Where you deploy Alloy in Grafana Cloud

Choosing a collector type

Manage collectors with Fleet Management

Manage collectors with Fleet Management

What Fleet Management gives you

Where to find it

Choose your signal

Choose your signal

Resources and next steps

Resources and next steps

Workshops and examples

Documentation

Community

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