grafana-alloy

OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

Get It!

The image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/chainguard/grafana-alloy:latest

Using the Image

Our image comes with an exemple configuration file so to get started with using the image after pulling, you can run

docker run \
  -p 12345:12345 \
  cgr.dev/chainguard/grafana-alloy:latest \
    run --server.http.listen-addr=0.0.0.0:12345 --storage.path=/var/lib/alloy/data \
    /etc/alloy/config.alloy

You will be able to go to localhost:12345 after running the container to see an interactive debugging UI for grafana-alloy.

For a more in depth guide for getting up and running with your own configuration for grafana-alloy, you can continue with their documenation here

In case you want to run Grafana Alloy on Kubernetes, there is a Helm chart available in the official Grafana Helm repository where you can find the instructions to deploy Grafana Alloy on Kubernetes using that Helm chart, here.

But for a quick start, you can run the following command to deploy Grafana Alloy on Kubernetes:

$ helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts
$ helm repo update
$ helm install grafana-alloy grafana/alloy \
    --set image.registry=cgr.dev \
    --set image.repository=chainguard/grafana-alloy \
    --set image.tag=latest

This will deploy Grafana Alloy on your Kubernetes cluster with the default configuration.