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.
Tasks with Grafana Agent Flow
This section details how to perform common tasks with Grafana Agent Flow.
- Configure Grafana Agent Flow
- Migrate to Grafana Agent Flow
- Monitor Grafana Agent Flow
- Estimate resource usage
- Collect and forward Prometheus metrics
- Set up meta-monitoring
- Collect OpenTelemetry data
- OpenTelemetry to Grafana stack
- Configure Grafana Agent clustering in an existing installation
- Distribute Prometheus metrics scrape load
- Debug issues with Grafana Agent Flow