A few weeks ago, I dived into Grafana Beyla, and I was blown away by its simplicity and power. The promise of “zero-instrumentation” monitoring is a game-changer for developers and SREs who want deep insights without…
In our previous post, we explored how Grafana Alloy acts as a unified agent for both metrics and logs. A key part of that setup involved loki.source.syslog listening for incoming syslog messages on 127.0.0.1:1601. But how do those messages…
In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to use Grafana Alloy — the powerful telemetry agent— to forward local syslog data to Loki, Grafana’s log aggregation system. We’ll also walk through how Alloy collects system metrics and…