Grafana Agent Buildpack

This is yet another Heroku buildpack for Grafana Agent deployments alongside heroku web apps.

Buildpack Usage

# Add the buildpack to your application
heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/jmherbst/agent-buildpack.git --app <your app name>

# Confirm the agent buildpack is indexed before your runtime buildpack
» heroku buildpacks --app <your app name>
=== <app name> Buildpack URLs
1. https://github.com/jmherbst/agent-buildpack.git
2. heroku/nodejs

Buildpack Config

Default Configuration Options

ENV VAR	Details
GRAFANA_AGENT_VERSION	Agent version to install. Default is v0.28.0. https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases

Grafana Agent Config

A basic config file is provided with this buildpack (config/grafana-agent-config.yml). The provided config file is configurable with ENV vars that heroku exports at runtime.

Default Configuration Options

ENV VAR	Details
GRAFANA_AGENT_DASHBOARD_METRICS_KEY	Value for metricsKey http param
GRAFANA_AGENT_ENV	Environment value for env label
GRAFANA_AGENT_SCRAPE_INTERVAL	Default: 20s
GRAFANA_AGENT_PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE_URL	Prometheus remote_write url
GRAFANA_AGENT_PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE_USERNAME	Prometheus remote_write basic auth username
GRAFANA_AGENT_PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE_PASSWORD	Prometheus remote_write basic auth password
GRAFANA_AGENT_LOG_LEVEL	Grafana Agent's server log level. Default: debug
HEROKU_APP_NAME	Heroku provided value for heroku_app_name label
HEROKU_APP_ID	Heroku provided value for heroku_app_id label
HEROKU_DYNO_ID	Heroku provided value for heroku_dyno_id label
PORT	Heroku provided $PORT where localhost web dyno is serving metrics

To override the default config file, your application can include a custom config file at grafana-agent/config.yml

The agent will substitute any env variables using -config.expand-env command line flag. Please refer to the grafana documentation for that feature.

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Buildpack Explanation