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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

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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. Logs Management (Loki)

Read, process, and forward logs.


Logs Sources

Processing Pipelines

Forwarding

Lab: Logs Collection and Forwarding to Loki

5. Traces (Tempo)

Ingestion and transformation of traces.


Traces

Transformation

6. Continuous Profiling (Pyroscope)

Setting up profiles collection.


Continuous Profiling

7. Cluster Mode

High availability and load balancing.


Clustering Mode

8. Advanced Deployment

Deployment on Kubernetes.


Alloy on Kubernetes
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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 different observability databases.

Dynamic Kubernetes discovery

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

Continuous profiling

Continuously collect application performance profiles (via Pyroscope) 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 bundles the features of Promtail, 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 to receive, process, and export data (Traces, Logs, Metrics) via the OTLP protocol.