Grafana Agent is an OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with configuration inspired by Terraform. It is designed to be flexible, performant, and compatible with multiple ecosystems such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

Grafana Agent is based around components. Components are wired together to form programmable observability pipelines for telemetry collection, processing, and delivery.

NOTE: This page focuses mainly on "Flow mode," the Terraform-inspired revision of Grafana Agent.

Grafana Agent can collect, transform, and send data to:

• The Prometheus ecosystem
• The OpenTelemetry ecosystem
• The Grafana open source ecosystem (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir, Pyroscope)

Why use Grafana Agent?

• Vendor-neutral: Fully compatible with the Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana open source ecosystems.
• Every signal: Collect telemetry data for metrics, logs, traces, and continuous profiles.
• Scalable: Deploy on any number of machines to collect millions of active series and terabytes of logs.
• Battle-tested: Grafana Agent extends the existing battle-tested code from the Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Collector projects.
• Powerful: Write programmable pipelines with ease, and debug them using a built-in UI.
• Batteries included: Integrate with systems like MySQL, Kubernetes, and Apache to get telemetry that's immediately useful.

Getting started

Check out our documentation to see:

• Installation instructions for Grafana Agent Flow
• Details about Grafana Agent Flow
• Steps for Getting started with Grafana Agent Flow
• The list of Grafana Agent Flow Components

Example

// Discover Kubernetes pods to collect metrics from.
discovery.kubernetes "pods" {
  role = "pod"
}

// Collect metrics from Kubernetes pods.
prometheus.scrape "default" {
  targets    = discovery.kubernetes.pods.targets
  forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.default.receiver]
}

// Get an API key from disk.
local.file "apikey" {
  filename  = "/var/data/my-api-key.txt"
  is_secret = true
}

// Send metrics to a Prometheus remote_write endpoint.
prometheus.remote_write "default" {
  endpoint {
    url = "http://localhost:9009/api/prom/push"

    basic_auth {
      username = "MY_USERNAME"
      password = local.file.apikey.content
    }
  }
}

We maintain an example Docker Compose environment that can be used to launch dependencies to play with Grafana Agent locally.

Release cadence

A new minor release is planned every six weeks.

The release cadence is best-effort: if necessary, releases may be performed outside of this cadence, or a scheduled release date can be moved forwards or backwards.

Minor releases published on cadence include updating dependencies for upstream OpenTelemetry Collector code if new versions are available. Minor releases published outside of the release cadence may not include these dependency updates.

Patch and security releases may be created at any time.

Community

To engage with the Grafana Agent community:

• Chat with us on our community Slack channel. To invite yourself to the Grafana Slack, visit https://slack.grafana.com/ and join the #agent channel.
• Ask questions on the Discussions page.
• File an issue for bugs, issues, and feature suggestions.
• Attend the monthly community call.

Contribute

Refer to our contributors guide to learn how to contribute.