# grafana/alloy

OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

Repository: https://github.com/grafana/alloy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alloy
Homepage: https://grafana.com/oss/alloy
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: collector, grafana, loki, monitoring, observability, opentelemetry, opentelemetry-collector, prometheus
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:16:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 65
- inputs: {"age_days": 917, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 12, "n_releases_24m": 50}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3471, forks 691 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:06.010344+00:00)

## What it is
Grafana Alloy is an open source OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines that collects, processes, and exports metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. It uses an expression-based configuration syntax for programmable pipelines and integrates with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope ecosystems.

## Use cases
- collect metrics logs traces and profiles with one agent
- replace multiple telemetry collectors with a single otel collector
- build programmable observability pipelines
- scrape prometheus metrics and forward to grafana mimir
- ship kubernetes logs to loki
- run a clustered telemetry collector with high availability
- load collector configuration from github s3 or http endpoints

## When to choose
- you want a single collector for all telemetry signals including profiles
- you need prometheus-compatible scraping with otel collector flexibility
- you run kubernetes and want native resource integration without a separate operator
- you want shareable, modular pipeline configs and built-in clustering

## When to avoid
- you need only a minimal vanilla OpenTelemetry Collector without extra features
- you use a non-Grafana stack with strict vendor-specific collector requirements
- you prefer simple static configs over learning Alloy's expression-based syntax

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, tracing, logging
- domain: monitoring, cloud-computing
- platform: windows, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: opentelemetry-collector, prometheus, grafana, telemetry-pipelines, otlp, logs, traces, profiles, grafana-loki, grafana-pyroscope, telemetry-collection, pipeline-configuration, devops, containers, linux, macos, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- grafana/alloy (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:06.010344+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:36:37.995387+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/grafana/alloy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:06.010344+00:00, sha 8e516c9da2df)
  - homepage: https://grafana.com/oss/alloy (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:45.226581+00:00, sha d6bdb30c38fc)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:45.238585+00:00, sha 882a3fe34bf0)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest?pg=oss-alloy&plcmt=hero-btn-3 (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:45.240300+00:00, sha dbd32e045e88)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest?pg=oss-alloy&plcmt=resources (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:45.247750+00:00, sha 18f9148f3258)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:45.235876+00:00, sha 6097ce127c08)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/pricing?pg=oss-alloy&plcmt=pricing-details (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:45.242089+00:00, sha c8fc6ebe7a97)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:45.249503+00:00, sha 3210cff6224b)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/integrations/cloud-monitoring-aws (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:45.251246+00:00, sha 51561815b31e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.