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Monitor Grafana Agent easily with Grafana

Easily monitor Grafana Agent, the vendor-neutral, batteries-included telemetry collector with configuration inspired by Terraform, with Grafana Cloud’s out-of-the-box monitoring solution. The Grafana Cloud forever-free tier includes 3 users and up to 10k metrics series to support your monitoring needs.

Grafana Agent has been deprecated and is expected to reach End-of-Life (EOL) on Nov. 1, 2025. Click here to learn more.

However, existing users of Grafana Agent Flow will feel right at home with Grafana Alloy, our OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with support for Prometheus pipelines. Alloy uses the same components, code, and concepts that were first introduced in Grafana Agent Flow, and we’ve also developed a solution for monitoring the health of your Alloy instance.

Grafana Agent Overview
Grafana Agent Overview
Grafana Agent Logs
Grafana Agent Logs
Grafana Agent Operational
Grafana Agent Operational
Grafana Agent Prometheus Remote Write
Grafana Agent Prometheus Remote Write
Grafana Agent Tracing Pipeline
Grafana Agent Tracing Pipeline

Key metrics included

agent_build_info
agent_tcp_connections
agent_wal_samples_appended_total
agent_wal_storage_active_series
go_gc_duration_seconds_count
go_goroutines
go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes
process_cpu_seconds_total
process_start_time_seconds
prometheus_remote_storage_enqueue_retries_total
prometheus_remote_storage_highest_timestamp_in_seconds
prometheus_remote_storage_queue_highest_sent_timestamp_seconds
prometheus_remote_storage_samples_dropped_total
prometheus_remote_storage_samples_failed_total
prometheus_remote_storage_samples_pending
prometheus_remote_storage_samples_retried_total
prometheus_remote_storage_samples_total
prometheus_remote_storage_sent_batch_duration_seconds_bucket
prometheus_remote_storage_sent_batch_duration_seconds_count
prometheus_remote_storage_sent_batch_duration_seconds_sum
prometheus_remote_storage_shard_capacity
prometheus_remote_storage_shards
prometheus_remote_storage_shards_desired
prometheus_remote_storage_shards_max
prometheus_remote_storage_shards_min
prometheus_remote_storage_succeeded_samples_total
prometheus_sd_discovered_targets
prometheus_target_interval_length_seconds_count
prometheus_target_interval_length_seconds_sum
prometheus_target_scrapes_exceeded_sample_limit_total
prometheus_target_scrapes_sample_duplicate_timestamp_total
prometheus_target_scrapes_sample_out_of_bounds_total
prometheus_target_scrapes_sample_out_of_order_total
prometheus_target_sync_length_seconds_sum
prometheus_wal_watcher_current_segment
traces_exporter_send_failed_spans_total
traces_exporter_sent_spans_total
traces_receiver_accepted_spans_total
traces_receiver_refused_spans_total
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Key alerting rules included

GrafanaAgentDown (Critical)
GrafanaAgentUnstable (Warning)
GrafanaAgentCPUHigh (Warning)
GrafanaAgentMemHigh (Warning)