Grafana Alloy usage

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I am just wondering if Grafana Alloy can be used as collector for Grafana Beyla?

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Hey @zozoo

I would say:
“Grafana Alloy is not intended to be used as a collector for Grafana Beyla. Instead, Grafana Beyla would typically integrate with various data collectors and exporters to gather telemetry data from different sources, which can then be visualized and analyzed using Grafana Alloy if desired.”
but
It’s theoretically possible to integrate Grafana Alloy as a collector with good configurations, but it not build for that so this might take you some efforts.

Regards

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Very cool but do I miss the beyla.yaml? In the Readme is written to deploy the belya.yaml but there is no file in the folder or is somewhere in the root of the repository?

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I am not a flow expert but in the alloy configuration we have:

discovery {
      services {
        exe_path   = "http"
        open_ports = "80"
      }
    }

which I believe it makes alloy listen on the http port 80 for service discovery. But in the values.yaml we don’t setup any service listening on port 80 or any other port that would have the port 80 as destination neither setup the pods to listen on port 80. I hope I am looking at it the wrong way.