grafana-alloy

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  "why_use_this": "Grafana Alloy is a vendor-neutral agent for collecting metrics, logs, and traces from diverse sources and forwarding them to backends like Prometheus, Loki, or any OpenTelemetry-compatible system. Its declarative configuration language and component-based architecture make it more flexible than the standard OpenTelemetry Collector for complex observability setups. Use it if you need fine-grained control over telemetry pipelines or are already in the Grafana ecosystem."
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