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Formation Alloy: From Discovery to Expertise | Cours en ligne et Certification

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Martin LEKPA

Martin LEKPA

Tech Lead et formateur Observabilité





Chapters | Training

0. Course Overview




Alloy: From Discovery to Expertise

1. Introduction and Architecture

Understand the fundamental concepts of Grafana Alloy.


What is Grafana Alloy?

The concept of 'Programmable Pipelines'

Internal Architecture

Installation

2. Syntax and Configuration (Alloy Language)

Master the declarative syntax and configurations.


Configuration Blocks

Variables and Functions

Secrets Management

Alloy Observability

3. Metrics Collection (Prometheus & Ecosystem)

Collect, transform, and send metrics.


Discovery

Scraping

Remote Write

OTLP Interoperability

4. Log Management (Loki)

Reading, processing, and shipping logs.


Log Sources

Processing Pipelines

Dispatching

Hands-on: Collecting and Dispatching Logs to Loki

5. Traces (Tempo)

Ingestion and transformation of traces.


Traces

Transformation

6. Continuous Profiling (Pyroscope)

Setting up profile collection.


Continuous Profiling

7. Cluster Mode

High availability and load balancing.


Clustering Mode

8. Advanced Deployment

Deployment on Kubernetes.


Alloy on Kubernetes

Cas concrets & Applications

Unified Telemetry Collection

Replace multiple agents with a single Alloy binary for centralized collection of logs, metrics, and traces.

OTLP Data Transformation

Receive, filter, modify, and route OpenTelemetry data to various observability databases.

Kubernetes Dynamic Discovery

Automatically discover and scrape pods and services dynamically deployed in a Kubernetes cluster.

Continuous Profiling

Collect application performance profiles (via Pyroscope) continuously to quickly identify bottlenecks.

Questions Fréquentes (FAQ)

It is an open-source, vendor-neutral telemetry collector designed to replace Grafana Agent. It is OpenTelemetry (OTel) compatible.
Yes, Alloy combines the features of Promtail and Grafana Agent and includes native support for OpenTelemetry.
Alloy uses a declarative syntax based on River (similar to Terraform's HCL) which simplifies pipeline creation.
Absolutely, Alloy offers full native support for receiving, processing, and exporting data (Traces, Logs, Metrics) via the OTLP protocol.
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