# grafana/alloy

> An OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines written in an expression-based syntax for collecting metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Supports integrations with Prometheus, Loki, Pyroscope, and Kubernetes.

- Magnitude: 0.9 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 3,630 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-22, 10:42–13:02 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2024-02-28 · Last push: 2026-10-22
- GitHub: https://github.com/grafana/alloy · Homepage: https://grafana.com/oss/alloy · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/grafana/alloy

## Useful for

- Configure collection of metrics, logs, and traces from apps via OTLP receiver
- Form a cluster of Alloy instances for automatic workload distribution
- Fetch remote configuration for centralized pipeline management

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 10:42–13:02: 3629 → 3630 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +2 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #13, +2 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 744
- Issues and pull requests: 7,399
- Watchers: 114
- Average over the last week: 2 per day
- Usual pace: 3 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v1.21.1 (2026-10-21)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-23 … 2026-10-22: 2, 2, 1, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 4, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 4, 4, 7, 8, 2, 7, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 0, 3, 3, 1

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #13, +2 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-22 13:05 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.