Determine if a collector is configured for Fleet Management

Collectors are individual Grafana Alloy instances registered in the Fleet Management service using a remotecfg block in their local configuration files. Upon startup, the collector registers itself and appears in the Fleet Management interface, where you can assign it a configuration pipeline and monitor its health.

A Grafana Alloy instance is installed whenever you install:

• A Grafana Cloud integration
• Kubernetes Monitoring
• Cloud Provider Observability
• Application Observability

The registration of a Grafana Alloy collector in Fleet Management depends on the Enable Remote Configuration toggle shown during Alloy installation. By default, this toggle is enabled, so Grafana Alloy is registered as part of your fleet. If you disable the toggle during installation, or if Alloy was installed before the Fleet Management feature was released, the collector will not be registered in Fleet Management.

The following image shows the Enable Remote Configuration toggle that appears during Alloy installation.

To determine if a collector is registered with Fleet Management, complete the following steps:

1. Sign in to Grafana Cloud and navigate to Connections > Collector > Fleet Management.

2. Review the list of collectors.

3. Perform one of the following:

   • If your collector appears on the list, you can skip to Milestone 5: Check the health status of a collector
   • If your collector doesn’t appear on the list, you can manually add it. Continue to the next milestone to learn how to register a Grafana Alloy instance with Fleet Management.