OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

Grafana Alloy is an open source OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. What can Alloy do? Programmable pipelines: Use a rich expression-based syntax for configuring powerful observability pipelines. OpenTelemetry Collector Distribution: Alloy is a distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector and supports dozens of its components, alongside new components that make use of Alloy's programmable pipelines. Big tent: Alloy embraces Grafana's "big tent" philosophy, where Alloy can be used with other vendors or open source databases. It has components to perfectly integrate with multiple telemetry ecosystems: * OpenTelemetry Collector * Prometheus * Grafana Loki * Grafana Pyroscope Shareable pipelines: Use modules to share your pipelines with the world. Automatic workload distribution: Configure Alloy instances to form a cluster for automatic workload distribution. Centralized configuration support: Alloy supports retrieving its configuration from a server for centralized configuration management. Debugging utilities: Use the built-in UI for visualizing and debugging pipelines.