# grafana-cold-storage/agent

Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.

Repository: https://github.com/grafana-cold-storage/agent
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/grafana-cold-storage-agent
Homepage: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: prometheus, agent, grafana, loki, opentelemetry-collector, monitoring, observability, opentelemetry
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-07-27T21:38:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2473, "days_push": 37, "days_rel": 358, "gap_med": 60, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1728, forks 512 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:28.346694+00:00)

## What it is
Grafana Agent is a vendor-neutral, programmable telemetry collector built as an OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with Terraform-inspired configuration. It collects, transforms, and ships metrics, logs, traces, and profiles to Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana ecosystems. The project reached End-of-Life on November 1, 2025 and users should migrate to Grafana Alloy.

## Use cases
- collect metrics logs and traces from my servers
- run an opentelemetry collector with prometheus support
- ship telemetry to grafana loki tempo mimir
- build programmable observability pipelines
- collect kubernetes cluster telemetry
- replace promtail and otel collector with one agent

## When to choose
- you are already running it and need reference material for migration
- you need a lightweight all-in-one telemetry collector for legacy setups

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - use Grafana Alloy instead
- you need security fixes or vendor support - Agent is EOL since November 2025

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: monitoring, tracing, logging
- domain: monitoring
- platform: windows, go, self-hosted
- tags: opentelemetry-collector, prometheus, telemetry-pipeline, eol, grafana-alloy, devops, linux, macos, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- grafana-cold-storage/agent (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.346694+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 2026-08-30T03:32:08.927037+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/grafana-cold-storage/agent (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.346694+00:00, sha d4437494961c)
  - homepage: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:54.565468+00:00, sha 4950d7e11bae)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:54.577520+00:00, sha 882a3fe34bf0)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/flow (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:54.579320+00:00, sha 0496d2f81122)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/about (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:54.581135+00:00, sha ada979b65ffb)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/flow/tasks/debug (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:54.582965+00:00, sha d5e490d4903e)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/about (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:54.584755+00:00, sha ada979b65ffb)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/static (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:54.586955+00:00, sha 09c87fc05a4a)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/operator (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:54.589041+00:00, sha 7a382502c64d)
  - site_page: https://grafana.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:54.574840+00:00, sha 6097ce127c08)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.