Infra & metrics
Grafana Alloy
Grafana Labs
Grafana's OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with native Prometheus/Loki/Pyroscope pipelines — the unified successor to Grafana Agent.
- Category
- Infra & metrics
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Rising
The catch
Grafana Agent hit EOL Nov 2025 forcing a migration, and Alloy's River/DAG config is a steeper learning curve than plain OTel YAML; best mainly if you're already in the Grafana stack.
Monitors
MetricsServersLogsTracesK8s
Protocols
OTLPPrometheus
Built for
SRE / DevOps