This is release v1.10.0 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions.

Notable changes

Breaking changes

• Removing the nanoserver-1809 container image for Windows 2019. (@ptodev)
  This is due to the deprecation of windows-2019 GitHub Actions runners.
  The windowsservercore-ltsc2022 Alloy image is still being published to DockerHub.

Bugfixes

• Upgrade otelcol components from OpenTelemetry v0.126.0 to v0.128.0 (@korniltsev, @dehaansa)
  • [otelcol.exporter.kafka]: Allow kafka exporter to produce to topics based on metadata key values.
  • [otelcol.receiver.kafka]: Enforce a backoff mechanism on non-permanent errors, such as when the queue is full.
  • [otelcol.receiver.kafka]: Don't restart the Kafka consumer on failed errors when message marking is enabled for them.
  • [otelcol.connector.spanmetrics]: Fix bug causing span metrics calls count to be always 0 when using delta temporality.

Features

• (Experimental) Add an array.group_by stdlib function to group items in an array by a key. (@wildum)

• Add the otelcol.exporter.faro exporter to export traces and logs to Faro endpoint. (@mar4uk)

• Add the otelcol.receiver.faro receiver to receive traces and logs from the Grafana Faro Web SDK. (@mar4uk)

• Add entropy support for loki.secretfilter (@romain-gaillard)

Enhancements

• Add hash_string_id argument to foreach block to hash the string representation of the pipeline id instead of using the string itself. (@wildum)

• (Experimental) Additions to experimental database_observability.mysql component:

  • Add explain_plan collector to database_observability.mysql component. (@rgeyer)
  • locks: addition of data locks collector (@gaantunes @fridgepoet)
  • Query sample collector is now enabled by default (@matthewnolf)

• (Experimental) prometheus.write.queue add support for exemplars. (@dehaansa)

• Wire in survey block for beyla.ebpf component. (@grcevski, @tpaschalis)

• Upgrade otelcol components from OpenTelemetry v0.126.0 to v0.128.0 (@korniltsev, @dehaansa)

  • [otelcol.processor.resourcedetection]: Add additional OS properties to resource detection: os.build.id and os.name.
  • [otelcol.processor.resourcedetection]: Add host.interface resource attribute to system detector.
  • [otelcol.exporter.kafka]: Fix Snappy compression codec support for the Kafka exporter.
  • [otelcol.receiver.filelog]: Introduce utf8-raw encoding to avoid replacing invalid bytes with \uFFFD when reading UTF-8 input.
  • [otelcol.processor.k8sattributes]: Support extracting labels and annotations from k8s Deployments.
  • [otelcol.processor.k8sattributes]: Add option to configure automatic service resource attributes.
  • [otelcol.exporter.datadog]: Adds hostname_detection_timeout configuration option for Datadog Exporter and sets default to 25 seconds.
  • [otelcol.receiver.datadog]: Address semantic conventions noncompliance and add support for http/db.
  • [otelcol.exporter.awss3]: Add the retry mode, max attempts and max backoff to the settings.

• Add support for conditions and statement-specific error_mode in otelcol.processor.transform. (@ptodev)

• Add storage and start_from args to cloudwatch logs receiver. (@boernd)

Bugfixes

• Fix extension registration for otelcol.receiver.splunkhec auth extensions. (@dehaansa)

Other changes

• Mark pyroscope.receive_http and pyroscope.relabel components as GA. (@marcsanmi)

• Upgrade otelcol.exporter.windows to v0.30.8 to get bugfixes and fix update collector support. (@dehaansa)

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

This is release v1.10.0-rc.0 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Breaking changes

• Removing the nanoserver-1809 container image for Windows 2019. (@ptodev)
  This is due to the deprecation of windows-2019 GitHub Actions runners.
  The windowsservercore-ltsc2022 Alloy image is still being published to DockerHub.

Bugfixes

• Upgrade otelcol components from OpenTelemetry v0.126.0 to v0.128.0 (@korniltsev, @dehaansa)
  • [otelcol.exporter.kafka]: Allow kafka exporter to produce to topics based on metadata key values.
  • [otelcol.receiver.kafka]: Enforce a backoff mechanism on non-permanent errors, such as when the queue is full.
  • [otelcol.receiver.kafka]: Don't restart the Kafka consumer on failed errors when message marking is enabled for them.
  • [otelcol.connector.spanmetrics]: Fix bug causing span metrics calls count to be always 0 when using delta temporality.

Features

• (Experimental) Add an array.group_by stdlib function to group items in an array by a key. (@wildum)

• Add the otelcol.exporter.faro exporter to export traces and logs to Faro endpoint. (@mar4uk)

• Add the otelcol.receiver.faro receiver to receive traces and logs from the Grafana Faro Web SDK. (@mar4uk)

• Add entropy support for loki.secretfilter (@romain-gaillard)

Enhancements

• Add hash_string_id argument to foreach block to hash the string representation of the pipeline id instead of using the string itself. (@wildum)

• (Experimental) Additions to experimental database_observability.mysql component:

  • Add explain_plan collector to database_observability.mysql component. (@rgeyer)
  • locks: addition of data locks collector (@gaantunes @fridgepoet)
  • Query sample collector is now enabled by default (@matthewnolf)

• (Experimental) prometheus.write.queue add support for exemplars. (@dehaansa)

• Wire in survey block for beyla.ebpf component. (@grcevski, @tpaschalis)

• Upgrade otelcol components from OpenTelemetry v0.126.0 to v0.128.0 (@korniltsev, @dehaansa)

  • [otelcol.processor.resourcedetection]: Add additional OS properties to resource detection: os.build.id and os.name.
  • [otelcol.processor.resourcedetection]: Add host.interface resource attribute to system detector.
  • [otelcol.exporter.kafka]: Fix Snappy compression codec support for the Kafka exporter.
  • [otelcol.receiver.filelog]: Introduce utf8-raw encoding to avoid replacing invalid bytes with \uFFFD when reading UTF-8 input.
  • [otelcol.processor.k8sattributes]: Support extracting labels and annotations from k8s Deployments.
  • [otelcol.processor.k8sattributes]: Add option to configure automatic service resource attributes.
  • [otelcol.exporter.datadog]: Adds hostname_detection_timeout configuration option for Datadog Exporter and sets default to 25 seconds.
  • [otelcol.receiver.datadog]: Address semantic conventions noncompliance and add support for http/db.
  • [otelcol.exporter.awss3]: Add the retry mode, max attempts and max backoff to the settings.

• Add support for conditions and statement-specific error_mode in otelcol.processor.transform. (@ptodev)

• Add storage and start_from args to cloudwatch logs receiver. (@boernd)

Bugfixes

• Fix extension registration for otelcol.receiver.splunkhec auth extensions. (@dehaansa)

Other changes

• Mark pyroscope.receive_http and pyroscope.relabel components as GA. (@marcsanmi)

• Upgrade otelcol.exporter.windows to v0.30.8 to get bugfixes and fix update collector support. (@dehaansa)

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

This is release v1.9.2 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions.

Notable changes:

Bugfixes

• Send profiles concurrently from pyroscope.ebpf. (@korniltsev)

• Fix the validate command not understanding the livedebugging block. (@dehaansa)

• Fix invalid class names in python profiles obtained with pyroscope.ebpf. (@korniltsev)

• Fixed a bug which prevented non-secret optional secrets to be passed in as number arguments. (@ptodev)

• For CRD-based components (prometheus.operator.*), retry initializing informers if the apiserver request fails. This rectifies issues where the apiserver is not reachable immediately after node restart. (@dehaansa)

Other changes

• Add no-op blocks and attributes to the prometheus.exporter.windows component (@ptodev).
  Version 1.9.0 of Alloy removed the msmq block, as well as the enable_v2_collector, where_clause, and use_api attributes in the service block.
  This made it difficult for users to upgrade, so those attributes have now been made a no-op instead of being removed.

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

This is release v1.9.1 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Bugfixes

• Update the prometheus.exporter.windows component to version v0.30.7. This fixes an error with the exchange collector and terminal_services collector (@dehaansa)

• Fix loki.source.firehose to propagate specific cloudwatch event timestamps when useIncomingTs is set to true. (@michaelPotter)

• Fix elevated CPU usage when using some otelcol components due to debug logging. (@thampiotr)

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

This is release v1.9.0 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Breaking changes

• The prometheus.exporter.windows component has been update to version v0.30.6. This update includes a significant rework of the exporter and includes some breaking changes. (@dehaansa)

  • The msmq and service collectors can no longer be configured with a WMI where clause. Any filtering previously done in a where clause will need to be done in a prometheus.relabel component.
  • The service collector no longer provides enable_v2_collector and use_api configuration options.
  • The mscluster_* and netframework_* collectors are now replaced with one mscluster and netframework collector that allows you to enable the separate metric groupings individually.
  • The teradici_pcoip and vmware_blast collectors have been removed from the exporter.

• The prometheus.exporter.oracledb component now embeds the oracledb_exporter from oracle instead of the deprecated oracledb_exporter from iamseth for collecting metrics from an OracleDB server: (@wildum)

  • The arguments username, password, default_metrics, and custom_metrics are now supported.
  • The previously undocumented argument custom_metrics is now expecting a list of paths to custom metrics files.
  • The following metrics are no longer available by default: oracledb_sessions_activity, oracledb_tablespace_free_bytes

• (Experimental) The enable_context_propagation argument in beyla.ebpf has been replaced with the context_propagation argument.
  Set enable_context_propagation to all to get the same behaviour as enable_context_propagation being set to true.

Features

• Bump snmp_exporter and embedded modules in prometheus.exporter.snmp to v0.29.0, add cisco_device module support (@v-zhuravlev)

• Add the otelcol.storage.file extension to support persistent sending queues and otelcol.receiver.filelog file state tracking between restarts. (@dehaansa)

• Add otelcol.exporter.googlecloud community component to export metrics, traces, and logs to Google Cloud. (@motoki317)

• Add support to configure basic authentication for alloy http server. (@kalleep)

• Add validate command to alloy that will perform limited validation of alloy configuration files. (@kalleep)

• Add support to validate foreach block when using validate command. (@kalleep)

• Add otelcol.receiver.splunkhec component to receive events in splunk hec format and forward them to other otelcol.* components. (@kalleep)

• Add support for Mimir federated rule groups in mimir.rules.kubernetes (@QuentinBisson)

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

This is release v1.9.0-rc.2 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Bugfixes

• Fix pyroscope.scrape scraping godeltaprof profiles. (@korniltsev)

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

This is release v1.9.0-rc.1 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Breaking changes

• The prometheus.exporter.windows component has been update to version v0.30.6. This update includes a significant rework of the exporter and includes some breaking changes. (@dehaansa)

  • The msmq and service collectors can no longer be configured with a WMI where clause. Any filtering previously done in a where clause will need to be done in a prometheus.relabel component.
  • The service collector no longer provides enable_v2_collector and use_api configuration options.
  • The mscluster_* and netframework_* collectors are now replaced with one mscluster and netframework collector that allows you to enable the separate metric groupings individually.
  • The teradici_pcoip and vmware_blast collectors have been removed from the exporter.

• The prometheus.exporter.oracledb component now embeds the oracledb_exporter from oracle instead of the deprecated oracledb_exporter from iamseth for collecting metrics from an OracleDB server: (@wildum)

  • The arguments username, password, default_metrics, and custom_metrics are now supported.
  • The previously undocumented argument custom_metrics is now expecting a list of paths to custom metrics files.
  • The following metrics are no longer available by default: oracledb_sessions_activity, oracledb_tablespace_free_bytes

• (Experimental) The enable_context_propagation argument in beyla.ebpf has been replaced with the context_propagation argument.
  Set enable_context_propagation to all to get the same behaviour as enable_context_propagation being set to true.

Features

• Bump snmp_exporter and embedded modules in prometheus.exporter.snmp to v0.29.0, add cisco_device module support (@v-zhuravlev)

• Add the otelcol.storage.file extension to support persistent sending queues and otelcol.receiver.filelog file state tracking between restarts. (@dehaansa)

• Add otelcol.exporter.googlecloud community component to export metrics, traces, and logs to Google Cloud. (@motoki317)

• Add support to configure basic authentication for alloy http server. (@kalleep)

• Add validate command to alloy that will perform limited validation of alloy configuration files. (@kalleep)

• Add support to validate foreach block when using validate command. (@kalleep)

• Add otelcol.receiver.splunkhec component to receive events in splunk hec format and forward them to other otelcol.* components. (@kalleep)

• Add support for Mimir federated rule groups in mimir.rules.kubernetes (@QuentinBisson)

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

This is release v1.8.3 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Bugfixes

• Fix mimir.rules.kubernetes panic on non-leader debug info retrieval (@TheoBrigitte)

• Fix detection of the “streams limit exceeded” error in the Loki client so that metrics are correctly labeled as ReasonStreamLimited. (@maratkhv)

• Fix loki.source.file race condition that often lead to panic when using decompression. (@kalleep)

• Fix deadlock in loki.source.file that can happen when targets are removed. (@kalleep)

• Fix loki.process to emit valid logfmt. (@kalleep)

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

This is release v1.8.2 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Bugfixes

• Fix otelcol.exporter.prometheus dropping valid exemplars. (@github-vincent-miszczak)

• Fix loki.source.podlogs not adding labels __meta_kubernetes_namespace and __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_*. (@kalleep)

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

This is release v1.8.1 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Bugfixes

• rfc3164_default_to_current_year argument was not fully added to loki.source.syslog (@dehaansa)

• Fix issue with remoteCfg service stopping immediately and logging noop error if not configured (@dehaansa)

• Fix potential race condition in remoteCfg service metrics registration (@kalleep)

• Fix panic in prometheus.exporter.postgres when using minimal url as data source name. (@kalleep)

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.