Building telemetry pipelines with Grafana Alloy

Get hands-on with Grafana Alloy to collect, process, and visualize observability data

Whether you are collecting telemetry data in Prometheus and/or OpenTelemetry formats to observe your infrastructure, applications, or both — Grafana Alloy can help you accomplish it all.

An open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with built-in Prometheus optimizations, Alloy supports metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.

Join this hands-on lab to build telemetry pipelines with Alloy from start to finish, using Alloy’s Prometheus and OpenTelemetry components to receive, transform, and ship data from a set of demo APIs and a Postgres database to Grafana observability backends.

What you’ll learn:

• A comprehensive understanding of Alloy components and their uses
• How to use Alloy’s configuration language
• How to configure OpenTelemetry and Prometheus-native pipelines within Alloy
• How to collect, process, and export telemetry data to the observability backends of your choice
• How to troubleshoot pipelines by using the debug UI
• How to visualize telemetry data using a Grafana dashboard