Alloy’s OpenTelemetry engine: What's new and what's next

In a recent OpenTelemetry community survey, Grafana Alloy was the most cited vendor distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Alloy brings together the best of both worlds: powerful Prometheus-native features plus OpenTelemetry’s extensive ecosystem and upstream innovation. And now, the new OpenTelemetry Engine mode lets you configure Alloy using standard OpenTelemetry Collector YAML and enable OpenTelemetry-native pipelines integrated with Grafana.

In this session, Grafana Labs engineers Bejal Lewis and Marko Bachvarovski explain Alloy’s new capabilities and show you exactly what changes (and what doesn’t). You’ll learn the differences between Alloy’s Default Engine and the new OpenTelemetry Engine, understand which use cases apply to which, and get a sneak peak into upcoming features.