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Alloy: From Discovery to Expertise

Complete training on Grafana Alloy, from discovery to expertise.

9 chapters22 lessonsEN
At your pace, through practice.

LEARNING PATH

Course curriculum

0Course Overview1 lessons
  1. Alloy: From Discovery to ExpertiseExercise · Level 3/5
1Introduction and Architecture4 lessons

Understand the fundamental concepts of Grafana Alloy.

  1. What is Grafana Alloy?Lesson
  2. The concept of 'Programmable Pipelines'Lesson
  3. Internal ArchitectureLesson
  4. InstallationLesson
2Syntax and Configuration (Alloy Language)4 lessons

Master the declarative syntax and configurations.

  1. Configuration BlocksLesson
  2. Variables and FunctionsLesson
  3. Secrets ManagementLesson
  4. Alloy ObservabilityLesson
3Metrics Collection (Prometheus & Ecosystem)4 lessons

Collect, transform, and send metrics.

  1. DiscoveryLesson
  2. ScrapingLesson
  3. Remote WriteLesson
  4. OTLP InteroperabilityLesson
4Log Management (Loki)4 lessons

Reading, processing, and shipping logs.

  1. Log SourcesLesson
  2. Processing PipelinesLesson
  3. DispatchingLesson
  4. Hands-on: Collecting and Dispatching Logs to LokiHands-on lab · Level 2/5
5Traces (Tempo)2 lessons

Ingestion and transformation of traces.

  1. TracesLesson
  2. TransformationLesson
6Continuous Profiling (Pyroscope)1 lessons

Setting up profile collection.

  1. Continuous ProfilingLesson
7Cluster Mode1 lessons

High availability and load balancing.

  1. Clustering ModeLesson
8Advanced Deployment1 lessons

Deployment on Kubernetes.

  1. Alloy on KubernetesLesson

LEARN BY DOING

Use cases & 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.

Frequently asked questions

What is Grafana Alloy?

It is an open-source, vendor-neutral telemetry collector designed to replace Grafana Agent. It is OpenTelemetry (OTel) compatible.

Does Alloy replace Promtail and other agents?

Yes, Alloy combines the features of Promtail and Grafana Agent and includes native support for OpenTelemetry.

What configuration language does Alloy use?

Alloy uses a declarative syntax based on River (similar to Terraform's HCL) which simplifies pipeline creation.

Can Alloy be used for OpenTelemetry?

Absolutely, Alloy offers full native support for receiving, processing, and exporting data (Traces, Logs, Metrics) via the OTLP protocol.