Observability
Grafana Alloy: Syntax and Configuration (Alloy Language: River)
As part of a Grafana training or observability training, master the declarative syntax of Grafana Alloy (River language), learn alloy configuration, varia…
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Cloud computing
Controlling your AWS costs: pricing models, budgets and optimization
Understand and optimize the AWS bill: cost drivers (compute, storage, data transfer), Cost Explorer, Budgets, cost allocation tags, Savings Plans, Spot in…
Observability
Dynatrace Operator on Kubernetes: DynaKube, monitoring modes and troubleshooting
Monitor Kubernetes with the Dynatrace Operator: Helm installation, the DynaKube resource, cloudNativeFullStack, applicationMonitoring and hostMonitoring m…
Observability
Collecting logs into Loki: Alloy, Promtail, Docker and OpenTelemetry
Send logs to Loki: Grafana Alloy, Promtail, the Docker driver, OTLP, good labels, parsing and enrichment, Kubernetes and journald collection.
Observability
Grafana Alloy components reference
A complete reference guide to all the components available in Grafana Alloy, organized by category (Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc.) to help you bui…
Observability
Grafana Alloy: The importance of Self-Monitoring
Discover why and how to configure Grafana Alloy so that it monitors itself, collecting its own logs, metrics, traces, and profiles to ensure the reliabili…
Observability
Grafana Alloy best practices: optimizing your telemetry collection
Discover the golden rules for configuring Grafana Alloy robustly: modularity, secrets management, interoperability with OTel and fixing Windows encoding e…
Observability
Grafana Alloy: collecting system metrics and local logs
Learn how to configure Grafana Alloy to monitor the server it runs on, with a focus on configuration methods (UI vs code) and their impact.
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Grafana Alloy: collecting and transforming telemetry
Learn how to use Grafana Alloy to collect, transform and route logs, metrics and traces. Discover its architecture, installation, configuration, and best …
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