Part 2: Collecting Metrics With Grafana Alloy And Sending Them To Mimir

📌 Welcome to the Grafana Alloy Course! Grafana Alloy is a powerful, vendor-neutral tool built on OpenTelemetry (OTel) that collects metrics, traces, and logs. In this video, we dive into metrics collection from various sources, demonstrating how to configure Grafana Alloy to efficiently send metrics data to Grafana Mimir --- 📋 What This Video Covers: 1. Kubernetes Pod and Service Discovery: Collecting Metrics from Pods and Services 2. PodMonitor and ServiceMonitor Discovery: Collecting Metrics from Monitored Resources 3. Collecting Metrics from Grafana Alloy Itself 4. Using the Unix Exporter to Collect Hardware and OS Metrics from Unix-based Systems 5. Using the cAdvisor Exporter to Collect Container Metrics --- ⏰ Timestamps for Easy Navigation: 00:00 Video Introduction 00:50 Kubernetes Pod and Service Discovery for Metrics Collection 13:16 PodMonitor and ServiceMonitor Discovery for Metrics Collection 22:59 Using Grafana Alloy on Linux 26:07 Metrics Collection from Alloy Itself 29:51 Unix Exporter for Hardware and OS Metrics 35:58 cAdvisor Exporter for Container Metrics --- 📚 Learn More from the Official Documentation: For more in-depth details and advanced configuration options, make sure to check out the Grafana Alloy official documentation: 👉 https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/ --- 🔗 Code and Resources: All the code explained in this video is available on the CodeOpsByMo GitHub organization: 👉 https://github.com/codeopsbymo