All of a sudden all requests from alloy are unauthenticated. No changes were made during the night. Logs: ts=2025-05-28T17:21:58.712095839Z level=error msg="Exporting failed. Dropping data." component_path=/ component_id=otelcol.exporter.otlphttp.grafana_cloud error="not retryable error: Permanent…

Feels like a grafana cloud issue perhaps? Have you tried reaching out to Grafana Cloud support?

@tonyswumac Indeed, I reached out to support. In the initial information gathering phase, hopefully they get to it soon. I’m on a free plan so that would delay support :sweat_smile:

Hello, I think I am experiencing the same issue as you have. Has there any progress been made on this?

All of a sudden all exports from alloy are unauthenticated

Grafana Alloy

aditya May 31, 2025, 9:26pm 5

I wasn’t patient enough. I deleted my stack and recreated it, that resolved the issue and I was able to restore service instantly.

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All of a sudden all exports from alloy are unauthenticated

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