On Sat Aug 02, 2025 at 08:27:02AM +0000, Lucas Raab wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Grafana announced the deprecation of promtail for collecting logs[0] and
> replaced it with another Go-based Swiss Army knife named alloy. promtail
> support will end March 2026 so I figured now would be the time to get the
> replacement out the door. Once March 2026 rolls around, we can remove
> promtail.
> 
> Alloy seems to offer collecting host metrics as well, but I haven't tested
> that functionality. The log shipping features work just the same as promtail
> though.
> 
> https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/
> 
> Feedback?

OK rsadowski

> 
> Thanks,
> Lucas
> 
> [0] https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/promtail/