grafana/alloy v1.9.0-rc.1

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This is release v1.9.0-rc.1 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Breaking changes

• The prometheus.exporter.windows component has been update to version v0.30.6. This update includes a significant rework of the exporter and includes some breaking changes. (@dehaansa)

  • The msmq and service collectors can no longer be configured with a WMI where clause. Any filtering previously done in a where clause will need to be done in a prometheus.relabel component.
  • The service collector no longer provides enable_v2_collector and use_api configuration options.
  • The mscluster_* and netframework_* collectors are now replaced with one mscluster and netframework collector that allows you to enable the separate metric groupings individually.
  • The teradici_pcoip and vmware_blast collectors have been removed from the exporter.

• The prometheus.exporter.oracledb component now embeds the oracledb_exporter from oracle instead of the deprecated oracledb_exporter from iamseth for collecting metrics from an OracleDB server: (@wildum)

  • The arguments username, password, default_metrics, and custom_metrics are now supported.
  • The previously undocumented argument custom_metrics is now expecting a list of paths to custom metrics files.
  • The following metrics are no longer available by default: oracledb_sessions_activity, oracledb_tablespace_free_bytes

• (Experimental) The enable_context_propagation argument in beyla.ebpf has been replaced with the context_propagation argument.
  Set enable_context_propagation to all to get the same behaviour as enable_context_propagation being set to true.

Features

• Bump snmp_exporter and embedded modules in prometheus.exporter.snmp to v0.29.0, add cisco_device module support (@v-zhuravlev)

• Add the otelcol.storage.file extension to support persistent sending queues and otelcol.receiver.filelog file state tracking between restarts. (@dehaansa)

• Add otelcol.exporter.googlecloud community component to export metrics, traces, and logs to Google Cloud. (@motoki317)

• Add support to configure basic authentication for alloy http server. (@kalleep)

• Add validate command to alloy that will perform limited validation of alloy configuration files. (@kalleep)

• Add support to validate foreach block when using validate command. (@kalleep)

• Add otelcol.receiver.splunkhec component to receive events in splunk hec format and forward them to other otelcol.* components. (@kalleep)

• Add support for Mimir federated rule groups in mimir.rules.kubernetes (@QuentinBisson)

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.