Alloy config to get metrics from log files

[tonyswumac]

I don’t personally use this, but you can use loki.process and stage.metrics to turn logs into metrics. See loki.process | Grafana Alloy documentation

Your comment here though:

@joec875

I’d like for there to be a process that automatically goes through my log files, extracts values from the JSON in each line, and sends them to a cloud based time series database where I can create charts and alerts.

sounds a lot more dynamic. Like any sort of log parsing, the logs need some structure to them and you’d need to know what you are parsing for from alloy configuration standpoint. If you are looking to parse ad-hoc JSON files and generate metrics dynamically might be easier for you to just write a script to do that.