Instrumentation and ingestion in an instant: Demo of Grafana Alloy, Grafana Beyla, and OpenTelemetry

Grafana Alloy, our open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector, uniquely provides native pipelines for both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus telemetry formats. With Alloy’s integration with Grafana Beyla for eBPF-based application auto-instrumentation, Alloy users can automatically capture metrics and traces of running services and connect them to their existing telemetry pipelines. Alloy also recently added an experimental feature for translating Datadog metric formats into native OTLP format. In this session, you’ll learn the basics of Alloy and Beyla and watch a live demo of how, with a single deployment, you can instantly get your data into Grafana Cloud for unified application and infrastructure observability.