Caution
Grafana Alloy is the new name for our distribution of the OTel collector. Grafana Agent has been deprecated and is in Long-Term Support (LTS) through October 31, 2025. Grafana Agent will reach an End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. Read more about why we recommend migrating to Grafana Alloy.
Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
04 Logs and Traces
Logs and Traces can also be templated. This is built on top of the previous examples.
docker run -v ${PWD}/:/etc/grafana grafana/agentctl:latest template-parse file:///etc/grafana/04_config.yml
Dynamic Configuration
Tells the Grafana Agent where to load files from.
Logs
Logs are loaded from a template matching logs-*.yml
. There can ONLY be 1 template loaded
configs:
- name: test_logs
positions:
filename: /tmp/positions.yaml
scrape_configs:
- job_name: test
pipeline_stages:
- regex:
source: filename
expression: '\\temp\\Logs\\(?P<log_app>.+?)\\'
configs:
- name: test_traces
automatic_logging:
backend: stdout
loki_name: default
spans: true