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.
What you’ll learn:
- A comprehensive understanding of Alloy components and their uses
- How to use Alloy’s configuration language
- How to configure OpenTelemetry and Prometheus-native pipelines within Alloy
- How to collect, process, and export telemetry data to the observability backends of your choice
- How to troubleshoot pipelines by using the debug UI
- How to visualize telemetry data using a Grafana dashboard