Grafana Alloy on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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. This image delivers Alloy fully installed from Grafana's official package repository and managed by systemd, so a working collector is running within minutes of launch, with no manual package setup, no service wiring and no reverse-proxy configuration required.

Because the Alloy web UI has no built-in authentication, exposing it directly would be unsafe. This image is hardened for that: Alloy is bound to the loopback interface only, and nginx fronts it 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 ever ships in the image. The password is written to a root-only file on the instance, and an unauthenticated health endpoint is provided for load-balancer probes.

The image ships a sensible, fully self-contained demo pipeline that scrapes Alloy's own internal metrics, tags and batches them, bridges them from the Prometheus pipeline into the OpenTelemetry pipeline and logs a summary locally. Nothing leaves the VM, every component is healthy on first boot, and the component-graph UI is populated out of the box, so you can explore a real working pipeline immediately and then replace it with your own.

Systemd manages Alloy and nginx for automatic restarts and clean logging, the OS is fully patched at build time and continues to receive unattended security updates, and 24/7 cloudimg support is included.

This is a repackaged open source software product with additional charges for cloudimg support services. Grafana and Grafana Alloy are trademarks of Raintank, Inc. dba Grafana Labs. Grafana Alloy is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.