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Grafana Alloy: combining the OpenTelemetry Collector with a high-performance Prometheus pipeline

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According to the 2025 Grafana Labs Observability Survey, 70% of all respondents are using both Prometheus and OpenTelemetry in some capacity, with 34% using them in production environments. That’s why Grafana Alloy, the open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector that we introduced at GrafanaCON last year, is focused on bringing together the best of OTel and Prometheus for a truly optimized hybrid experience. In this session, Grafana Labs’ Ted Young and Johanna Öjeling provide a demo of how Alloy delivers a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and a high-performance Prometheus pipeline in a single binary deployment; the debugging workflows; and the performance and cost savings users have seen running it at scale.

Speakers

Johanna Öjeling

Johanna Öjeling

Senior Software Engineer  •  Grafana Labs
Johanna Öjeling is a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on Grafana Fleet Management to help users manage telemetry collectors at scale. She has a background in distributed, data-intensive systems, and is passionate about software quality, developer experience, and open source.
    Ted Young

    Ted Young

    Developer Programs Director  •  Grafana Labs
    Ted Young is a co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project. Prior to that, he worked on Diego, the container scheduling system for Cloud Foundry. For work, his main area of interest is in correctness and reliability for large scale distributed software systems. For fun, he likes to makes movies, and tries to get as far away from the computers as humanly possible.