README.md

Grafana Agent is an telemetry collector for sending metrics, logs, and trace data to the opinionated Grafana observability stack. It works best with:

• Grafana Cloud
• Grafana Enterprise Stack
• OSS deployments of Grafana Loki, Prometheus, Cortex, and Grafana Tempo

• Grafana Agent uses less memory on average than Prometheus – by doing less (only focusing on remote_write-related functionality).
• Grafana Agent allows for deploying multiple instances of the Agent in a cluster and only scraping metrics from targets that running at the same host. This allows distributing memory requirements across the cluster rather than pressurizing a single node.

Table of Contents

1. Overview
   1. Metrics
   2. Logs
   3. Comparison to alternatives
   4. Next Steps
2. Getting Started
   1. Docker-Compose Example
   2. k3d Example
   3. Installing
   4. Creating a Config File
      1. Integrations
      2. Prometheus-like Config/Migrating from Prometheus
      3. Loki Config/Migrating from Promtail
   5. Running
3. Configuration Reference
4. Migration Guide
5. API
6. Scraping Service Mode
7. Operation Guide
8. Maintainers Guide
9. Windows Guide