Grafana Alloy deployment on a Linux host.
This setup will use Vagrant with VirtualBox to create a local test instance:
mkdir -p vagrant/grafana-demo
cd vagrant/grafana-demo
vagrant init ubuntu/jammy64Use the utils/Vagrantfile content to optimize the box creation.
Then, create the box:
vagrant up
vagrant sshNote
Using the standard architecture. The Fleet Management feature is currently in public preview and it was giving me trouble
Create and edit the variables file to configure Alloy. Use the utils/template_alloy_vars.yml template:
sudo touch /etc/ansible/alloy_vars.yml
sudo chmod 600 /etc/ansible/alloy_vars.yml
sudo vim /etc/ansible/alloy_vars.ymlUse the Ansible playbooks to automate the Grafana configuration.
Tip
In preference of fine-grained control, I'm implementing the Install Grafana Alloy on Linux steps, but an official Ansible role is available.
Clone the Git repository, and copy the utils/ansible-pull.sh file for execution convenience.
Within the pull file, replace the TOKEN variable with a contents read-only Git token to be used for pulling configuration updates. You may instead prefer to use SSH and avoid dealing with tokens.
Run the configuration playbook:
sudo bash pull.shVerify that Alloy is installed and running:
sudo systemctl status alloyManual changes can also be reloaded instead of a restart:
sudo systemctl reload alloyConfiguration will be updated to the default path:
/etc/alloy/config.alloyService logs can be viewed with in the journal:
sudo journalctl -u alloyThe configuration is a combination from the documentation and guided setup in the Grafana console, with reference files:
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cloud-onboarding/alloy/scripts/install-linux.sh
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cloud-onboarding/alloy/config/config.alloy
Additional connectors and settings can be implemented such as prometheus.exporter.unix.
For extended troubleshooting, enable the UI by passing additional command-line flags.
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