Grafana Alloy on Ubuntu 24.04

Azure Observability

Grafana Alloy, a vendor neutral OpenTelemetry Collector distribution that collects, processes and forwards your metrics, logs, traces and profiles from one declarative config.

Base

Hardened build

minimal ports, security patches applied at build time

Access

Unique credentials

generated on first boot, readable only by root

Verified

Boots working

services pass a health gate before release

Support

24/7, 365 days

by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Grafana Alloy is a vendor neutral distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. It collects, processes and forwards telemetry, metrics, logs, traces and profiles, using a single declarative configuration built from composable components, and it can ship that data to Prometheus, Grafana Cloud, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and any OpenTelemetry compatible backend. A built in web UI renders the live component graph and the health of every component, so you can see exactly how telemetry flows through your pipeline.

It suits teams that want a single, flexible agent to gather observability data from their hosts and applications and forward it to the backends they already use, with the whole pipeline defined as code in one file that is easy to version control and reproduce.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg delivers Grafana Alloy fully installed from Grafana's official package repository and managed by systemd, so a working collector answers the moment the instance boots. The image is secure by default: because the Alloy web UI has no built in authentication, Alloy is bound to loopback only and fronted by an nginx reverse proxy on port 80 behind an HTTP Basic Auth gate whose password is generated uniquely and at random on the first boot of every VM, so no shared or default credential is ever baked into the image, and an unauthenticated health endpoint is provided for load balancer probes. A fully self contained demo pipeline scrapes Alloy's own metrics, processes and batches them and logs a summary locally, so every component is healthy and the component graph UI is populated on first boot with nothing leaving the VM. The base is fully patched with unattended security upgrades enabled, and every deployment is paired with a step by step deploy guide and backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.

Common uses

Run one flexible agent to collect metrics, logs, traces and profiles from your hosts
Forward telemetry to Prometheus, Grafana Cloud, Loki, Tempo or any OpenTelemetry backend
Define your whole observability pipeline as code and watch it live in the component graph

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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Overview

Why the cloudimg image

Common uses

See it running

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