service
Grafana Alloy
Technical Specifications
Purpose
Collects logs and metrics from every LXC and ships them to Loki / Beszel
Version
latest
Network Port
12345
Traffic Type
HTTP
Deployed Across (10 containers)
Distributed Deployment
Alloy runs as a sidecar agent in every LXC container. Changes to the Alloy config must be pushed to all containers.
Grafana Alloy is the OpenTelemetry-native telemetry collector from Grafana Labs, succeeding the Grafana Agent. A lightweight Alloy instance runs inside every LXC container, scrapes local journal/file logs, and forwards them to the central Loki instance on the logging LXC. This gives a single-pane-of-glass view across the entire homelab without SSH-ing into individual containers.