Alternatives to Grafana Alloy

An open-source telemetry collector from Grafana Labs that gathers and forwards logs, metrics and traces. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Grafana Alloy.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Grafana Alloy as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Fluent Bit

    Lightweight agent that collects, processes and forwards logs, metrics and traces.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hosted

    Grafana Alloy is Grafana Labs' collector for logs, metrics and traces, fitting directly into a Loki and Grafana stack as the Promtail replacement.

  • Fluentd

    An open-source data collector that gathers logs from many sources and routes them to storage backends.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Grafana Alloy collects and forwards logs and other telemetry, fitting directly into a Loki and Grafana stack instead of routing to many backends.

  • Prometheus Node Exporter

    A small agent that exposes hardware and operating system metrics from Linux and Unix machines to Prometheus.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Grafana Alloy is a single collector for logs, metrics and traces that fits a Grafana and Loki stack, though its configuration takes time to learn.

  • windows_exporter

    Expose Windows system metrics to Prometheus.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsCommand line

    Grafana Alloy is a self-hosted collector for logs, metrics and traces from Grafana Labs that fits a Loki and Grafana stack, with configuration that takes time to learn.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.