Migrate a Grafana Agent static mode deployment to Grafana Alloy

domain: grafana.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Verified steps

  1. Install Grafana Alloy alongside the existing Grafana Agent deployment
  2. Run `alloy convert --source-format=static -o <output>.alloy <agent-config>.yaml` to generate an equivalent Alloy configuration, adding `--report` to get a diagnostic report of anything that didn't convert cleanly
  3. Review the conversion report and manually address any unsupported or dropped features before relying on `--bypass-errors`
  4. Alternatively, run Alloy directly against the static config using its static-mode compatibility path to validate behavior before converting
  5. Test the converted config in staging, comparing metrics/logs output against the original Agent deployment
  6. Cut over production traffic to Alloy and decommission the Grafana Agent instances

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