Grafana Alloy Files

This is release v1.10.0 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions.

Notable changes

Breaking changes

• Removing the nanoserver-1809 container image for Windows 2019. (@ptodev) This is due to the deprecation of windows-2019 GitHub Actions runners. The windowsservercore-ltsc2022 Alloy image is still being published to DockerHub.

Bugfixes

• Upgrade otelcol components from OpenTelemetry v0.126.0 to v0.128.0 (@korniltsev, @dehaansa)
• [otelcol.exporter.kafka]: Allow kafka exporter to produce to topics based on metadata key values.
• [otelcol.receiver.kafka]: Enforce a backoff mechanism on non-permanent errors, such as when the queue is full.
• [otelcol.receiver.kafka]: Don't restart the Kafka consumer on failed errors when message marking is enabled for them.
• [otelcol.connector.spanmetrics]: Fix bug causing span metrics calls count to be always 0 when using delta temporality.

Features

• (Experimental) Add an array.group_by stdlib function to group items in an array by a key. (@wildum)
• Add the otelcol.exporter.faro exporter to export traces and logs to Faro endpoint. (@mar4uk)

• Add the otelcol.receiver.faro receiver to receive traces and logs from the Grafana Faro Web SDK. (@mar4uk)

• Add entropy support for loki.secretfilter (@romain-gaillard)

Enhancements

• Add hash_string_id argument to foreach block to hash the string representation of the pipeline id instead of using the string itself. (@wildum)

• (Experimental) Additions to experimental database_observability.mysql component:

• Add explain_plan collector to database_observability.mysql component. (@rgeyer)
• locks: addition of data locks collector (@gaantunes @fridgepoet)

• Query sample collector is now enabled by default (@matthewnolf)

• (Experimental) prometheus.write.queue add support for exemplars. (@dehaansa)

• Wire in survey block for beyla.ebpf component. (@grcevski, @tpaschalis)

• Upgrade otelcol components from OpenTelemetry v0.126.0 to v0.128.0 (@korniltsev, @dehaansa)

• [otelcol.processor.resourcedetection]: Add additional OS properties to resource detection: os.build.id and os.name.
• [otelcol.processor.resourcedetection]: Add host.interface resource attribute to system detector.
• [otelcol.exporter.kafka]: Fix Snappy compression codec support for the Kafka exporter.
• [otelcol.receiver.filelog]: Introduce utf8-raw encoding to avoid replacing invalid bytes with \uFFFD when reading UTF-8 input.
• [otelcol.processor.k8sattributes]: Support extracting labels and annotations from k8s Deployments.
• [otelcol.processor.k8sattributes]: Add option to configure automatic service resource attributes.
• [otelcol.exporter.datadog]: Adds hostname_detection_timeout configuration option for Datadog Exporter and sets default to 25 seconds.
• [otelcol.receiver.datadog]: Address semantic conventions noncompliance and add support for http/db.

• [otelcol.exporter.awss3]: Add the retry mode, max attempts and max backoff to the settings.

• Add support for conditions and statement-specific error_mode in otelcol.processor.transform. (@ptodev)

• Add storage and start_from args to cloudwatch logs receiver. (@boernd)

Bugfixes

• Fix extension registration for otelcol.receiver.splunkhec auth extensions. (@dehaansa)

Other changes

• Mark pyroscope.receive_http and pyroscope.relabel components as GA. (@marcsanmi)

• Upgrade otelcol.exporter.windows to v0.30.8 to get bugfixes and fix update collector support. (@dehaansa)

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.