Company
Date Published
Author
Paschalis Tsilias
Word count
496
Language
English
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None

Summary

Grafana Agent v0.30 introduces significant updates, including the beta graduation of Agent Flow and the addition of Loki components for logging pipelines, enhancing the tool's capabilities in handling telemetry data. The release supports seamless integration between Prometheus and OpenTelemetry ecosystems, aligning with Grafana's Big Tent philosophy, and aims for feature parity with the static Agent mode by incorporating native histograms and improvements to the Grafana Agent Operator. The new logging pipeline features allow for the discovery, transformation, and shipping of log entries using components like discovery.file, loki.source.file, loki.relabel, loki.process, and loki.write. The update also includes plans for future enhancements, such as converting logs between Loki and OpenTelemetry, with a continued focus on performance, stability, and community engagement.