How to Migrate to Grafana Alloy (OTel) | Complete Guide | Grafana Loki
💡 In this video you will learn step-by-step instructions how to migrate your existing Promtail configurations (that you use with Grafana Loki) to Grafana Alloy. It explains in detail about installation, configuration, migration guide, debugging and troubleshooting. ⚠️ Since Grafana Promtail (default agent for Grafana Loki) is now EOL ( March 2, 2026) afterwards no future support or updates will be provided. All future feature development will occur in Grafana Alloy, which is an Open Source tool that can collect all the telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces, profiling) and is also 100% OpenTelemetry (OTel) compatible. ✅ This video is for anyone who wants to migrate to Grafana Alloy if currently using Promtail (Loki Agent) or any similar tools such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry. 👉 Link to the Blog post: / how-to-migrate-from-grafana-promtail-eol-t... ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 🟢 Pre-requisites 💡 You need to have running Grafana Loki on your machine: • How to visualize log files easily using Gr... Here is the link to the Blogpost: / installing-grafana-loki-with-promtail-on-l... 💡 You also need the following installed on your machine: Operating System (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) Grafana Server Loki with Promtail If you also need to install Linux, watch the following video: • The easiest way to install Linux on a Virt... ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ⏳ Timeline to the following topics 🎯 : 00:00 - 01:18 Agenda 01:19 - 02:02 Introduction 02:03 - 02:44 Prerequisites 02:45 - 04:39 Promtail Limitations and End-Of-Life Announcement 04:41 - 05:40 Introduction to Grafana Alloy 05:41 - 07:30 Grafana Alloy vs Promtail 07:31 - 08:10 System Requirements 08:11 - 15:39 Demo (Installing and Configuring Grafana Alloy) 15:40 - 16:34 Using Grafana Alloy WebUI (Testing Installation) 16:36 - 24:11 Migrate Promtail Configuration files to Grafana Alloy (Deep Dive) 24:12 - 28:01 Testing and Verifying Migration 28:02 - 32:32 Advanced Debugging and Troubleshooting 32:33 - 35:03 Current Limitations 35:04 - 35:37 Takeaway Fun Exercise 35:38 - 36:20 Answering your Questions ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Want to connect and stay up-to-date 📢 : 1- Link to my Blogs 🖍 : / syed_usman_ahmed 2- Connect with me 🔔 : LinkedIn: / syed-usman-ahmad-b1415515 Instagram: / freelinuxtutorials Twitter: https://x.com/usahmad87 BluSky: https://bsky.app/profile/freelinuxtut... TikTok: / usmanlinux 3- Ask me questions on the Grafana OSS community 💚 : https://community.grafana.com/u/usman... Thank you watching 😀 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ #grafana #otel #tutorial #devops #linux
