Choose what to learn next

You now have the vocabulary needed to read an Alloy configuration. You can identify attributes, expressions, and blocks; distinguish arguments from exports; trace a component reference; and recognize an invalid circular dependency.

Continue with the type of telemetry you want to collect:

• Use Grafana Alloy to send metrics to Prometheus to build a metrics pipeline.
• Use Grafana Alloy to send logs to Loki to build a logs pipeline.

These tutorials put the component concepts from this path into practice.

When you need to configure a particular component, open the component reference. Each component page describes what the component does, the arguments it accepts, the blocks it supports, and the fields it exports.