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Building OpenTelemetry and Prometheus native telemetry pipelines with Grafana Alloy

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About this lab

Whether you are collecting telemetry data in Prometheus and/or OpenTelemetry formats to observe your infrastructure, applications, or both — Grafana Alloy can help you accomplish it all.

An open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with built-in Prometheus optimizations, Alloy supports metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.

Join this hands-on lab to build telemetry pipelines with Alloy from start to finish, using Alloy’s Prometheus and OpenTelemetry components to receive, transform, and ship data from a set of demo APIs and a Postgres database to Grafana observability backends. By the end of the three hours, you will be able to:

  • Understand Alloy components and their uses.
  • Use Alloy’s configuration language.
  • Configure OpenTelemetry and Prometheus native pipelines within Alloy.
  • Collect, process, and export telemetry data to the observability backends of your choice.
  • Troubleshoot pipelines by using the Debug UI.
  • Visualize telemetry data using a Grafana dashboard.

Requirements:

  • Linux/MacOS/WSL2
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose This session is tailored for developers and SREs.
These sessions led by Grafana Labs experts will be held in the morning and afternoon of May 6.
Only available to attendees who purchased the add-on along with their conference ticket.

Speakers

Lisa Jung

Lisa Jung

Staff Developer Advocate  •  Grafana Labs
Lisa Jung is a staff developer advocate at Grafana Labs and a member of the OTel End User SIG and Communications SIG. Her passion is to remove the suffering and frustration that developers experience while learning a new technology. She is the creator of Beginner’s Crash Course to Elastic Stack, Grafana for Beginners, and OTel for Beginners series. In her spare time, she loves temporarily relocating to a foreign country to live as the locals do or checking things off her bucket list one item at a time.
    Mischa Thompson

    Mischa Thompson

    Senior Software Engineer  •  Grafana Labs
    Mischa Thompson joined Grafana Labs in November 2022. He previously worked on Grafana Agent and Alloy and now works on Grafana’s fleet management offering. He is based in Seattle and enjoys biking around Alki beach daily in the summer. In the winter he avoids the gloomy weather by reading, most recently The Wheel of Time.