Grafana Observability: Install Alloy with systemd
How to install Grafana Alloy with systemd, configure the required permissions, and set up your first collection config.
4 min
grafana
alloy
systemd
Grafana Observability
A hands-on series for building a production-grade observability stack from scratch. Starting with setting up Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki, then adding Grafana Alloy for metrics and log collection, container and host monitoring, alerting, and dashboards. Follow along in order to end up with a complete, working setup.
6 pages
Grafana Observability: Dashboard Provisioning as Code
Store your Grafana dashboards as versioned JSON files that load automatically on startup, so you never lose a dashboard to a container rebuild.
4 min
docker
grafana
Grafana Observability: Alerting
Set up Grafana alert rules against your Prometheus metrics and get notified via Discord when something breaks.
20 min
docker
grafana
prometheus
Grafana Observability: Log Monitoring with Grafana Alloy and Loki
Collect system logs and Docker container logs using Grafana Alloy and forward them to Loki for centralized log management in Grafana.
4 min
docker
grafana
loki
alloy
Grafana Observability: Host & Container Monitoring with Grafana Alloy
Collect host system and Docker container metrics using Grafana Alloy's built-in exporters, stored in Prometheus and visualized in Grafana.
4 min
docker
prometheus
grafana
alloy
Grafana Observability: Setting Up Your Observability Stack
Install Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and Grafana Alloy with Docker Compose to build a complete homelab monitoring and observability stack from scratch.
6 min
docker
grafana
prometheus
loki
alloy