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Monitor Grafana Alloy easily with Grafana

Easily monitor the health of Grafana Alloy, an open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines, with Grafana Cloud’s out-of-the-box monitoring solution. The Grafana Cloud forever-free tier includes 3 users and up to 10k metrics series to support your monitoring needs.

Alloy resources usage overview
Alloy cluster node information
Alloy cluster overview
Overall components overview
Prometheus related components overview

Key metrics included

alloy_build_info
alloy_component_controller_running_components
alloy_component_dependencies_wait_seconds
alloy_component_dependencies_wait_seconds_bucket
alloy_component_evaluation_seconds
alloy_component_evaluation_seconds_bucket
alloy_component_evaluation_seconds_count
alloy_component_evaluation_seconds_sum
alloy_component_evaluation_slow_seconds
alloy_config_hash
alloy_resources_machine_rx_bytes_total
alloy_resources_machine_tx_bytes_total
alloy_resources_process_cpu_seconds_total
alloy_resources_process_resident_memory_bytes
cluster_node_gossip_health_score
cluster_node_gossip_proto_version
cluster_node_gossip_received_events_total
cluster_node_info
cluster_node_lamport_time
cluster_node_peers
cluster_node_update_observers
cluster_transport_rx_bytes_total
cluster_transport_rx_packet_queue_length
cluster_transport_rx_packets_failed_total
cluster_transport_rx_packets_total
cluster_transport_stream_rx_bytes_total
cluster_transport_stream_rx_packets_failed_total
cluster_transport_stream_rx_packets_total
cluster_transport_stream_tx_bytes_total
cluster_transport_stream_tx_packets_failed_total
cluster_transport_stream_tx_packets_total
cluster_transport_streams
cluster_transport_tx_bytes_total
cluster_transport_tx_packet_queue_length
cluster_transport_tx_packets_failed_total
cluster_transport_tx_packets_total
exporter_send_failed_spans_ratio_total
exporter_sent_spans_ratio_total
go_gc_duration_seconds_count
go_goroutines
go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes
processor_batch_batch_send_size_ratio_bucket
processor_batch_metadata_cardinality_ratio
processor_batch_timeout_trigger_send_ratio_total
prometheus_remote_storage_bytes_total
prometheus_remote_storage_highest_timestamp_in_seconds
prometheus_remote_storage_metadata_bytes_total
prometheus_remote_storage_queue_highest_sent_timestamp_seconds
prometheus_remote_storage_samples_failed_total
prometheus_remote_storage_samples_retried_total
prometheus_remote_storage_samples_total
prometheus_remote_storage_sent_batch_duration_seconds_bucket
prometheus_remote_storage_sent_batch_duration_seconds_count
prometheus_remote_storage_sent_batch_duration_seconds_sum
prometheus_remote_storage_shards
prometheus_remote_storage_shards_max
prometheus_remote_storage_shards_min
prometheus_remote_write_wal_samples_appended_total
prometheus_remote_write_wal_storage_active_series
receiver_accepted_spans_ratio_total
receiver_refused_spans_ratio_total
rpc_server_duration_milliseconds_bucket
scrape_duration_seconds
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Key alerting rules included

ClusterNotConverging
ClusterNodeCountMismatch
ClusterNodeUnhealthy
ClusterNodeNameConflict
ClusterNodeStuckTerminating
ClusterConfigurationDrift
SlowComponentEvaluations
UnhealthyComponents
OtelcolReceiverRefusedSpans
OtelcolExporterFailedSpans