docker-projects/alloy-stack/README.md

Grafana-Alloy System Monitoring Stack

• Alloy: Metrics and Logs collection, pushes to prometheus and loki
• Loki: Logs DB
• Prometheus: Metrics DB
• Grafana: Data Visualisation

Setup

1. Run compose
2. Open Grafana Dashboard
3. Add new prometheus connection: Connections -> Add new Datasource -> search for "prometheus" -> http://prometheus:9090 -> Test & Save
4. Same for Loki -> http://loki:3100

Use Drilldown to look through your data

Links

• https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E654LPrkCjo
• https://github.com/ChristianLempa/boilerplates/tree/main/docker-compose/alloy
• https://github.com/grafana/alloy-scenarios