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Grafana Alloy, NEW log + metric collector replaces everything!

Christian Lempa

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In this video we will explore Grafana Alloy, the new Swiss Army Knife for logs and metrics monitoring. We’ll cover replacing tools like Promtail and how Alloy centralizes telemetry collection and processing. We’ll walk through configuring Alloy for Linux, Docker containers, and sending data to Loki and Prometheus, simplifying your HomeLab setup.

References

- Grafana Alloy: https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/

- Grafana Scenarios: https://github.com/grafana/alloy-scenarios

- My Boilerplates: http://github.com/christianlempa/boilerplates

- Kestra Tutorial 1: https://youtu.be/D4cixQ_Ek4Y

- Kestra Tutorial 2: https://youtu.be/PJG1-7hMHsE

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

03:08 Overview and Installation

08:24 Replace Promtail

12:09 Relabeling

17:25 Linux Metrics Collection

25:35 Linux Logs and Journal

30:29 Docker Metrics and Logs

33:40 Final thoughts

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