Grafana Alloy, Grafana's OpenTelemetry Collector distribution, celebrates its first anniversary with significant milestones and future plans. Having integrated Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles, Alloy has become widely adopted, with over 525,000 active instances. It offers features like native clustering and built-in Vault support, appealing to diverse industries and use cases. Recent enhancements include adding more OpenTelemetry components and live debugging capabilities. Looking ahead, Grafana plans to strengthen Alloy's alignment with OpenTelemetry standards, improve debugging and configuration tools, and expand Fleet Management features in Grafana Cloud. With the end of life for Grafana Agent set for November 2025, users are encouraged to migrate to Alloy to leverage its advancements and integration with Grafana Cloud.