What is Grafana Alloy? Introducing an OSS Telemetry Collector That's 100% OTLP Compatible | Grafana

Introducing our newest OSS project, Grafana Alloy. Alloy is a telemetry collector that is 100% OTLP compatible and offers native pipelines for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus telemetry formats, supporting metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.

What makes Alloy standout is that it's an open source tool that combines all the observability signals that are vital to run combined infrastructure and application monitoring workloads at scale. It includes enterprise-grade features, such as native clustering for production at scale and built-in Vault support for enhanced security — all out of the box.

Grafana Agent, our existing OSS telemetry agent, and Grafana Agent Operator are now deprecated and will enter into Long-Term Support (LTS) beginning April 9, 2024. This means both Grafana Agent and Grafana Agent Operator will no longer receive any new feature updates, but they will receive critical bug fixes and security fixes. Commercial support will end after the LTS phase, which we anticipate will extend for about 18 months until October 31, 2025. End-of-Life (EOL) phase for Grafana Agent and Grafana Agent Operator will begin once LTS ends. Grafana Agent and the Grafana Agent Operator are expected to reach EOL on November 1, 2025. We recommend that you begin planning your transition towards the new Grafana Alloy collector.

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