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Grafana Alloy vs Telegraf: catalog facts
Grafana Alloy	Telegraf
Free Free and open source from Grafana Labs.	Free Free and open source. Hosting, hardware and any external services are separate.
Self-hosted	Linux, Windows, macOS, Command line
One collector for logs and other telemetry Replacement for the retired Promtail	Provides many input and output plugins Connects data sources to monitoring back ends
Only a collector; needs Loki, Grafana or another backend to be useful Configuration takes time to learn	Requires a separate destination to store and visualize collected data.
Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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