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Grafana Alloy - Production-Ready OpenTelemetry Collector on AWS
Skip hours of manual setup and launch a fully secured OpenTelemetry Collector in under five minutes. This AMI delivers Grafana Alloy 1.17.1 - the vendor-neutral, single-binary OpenTelemetry Collector distribution from Grafana Labs - pre-installed, hardened, and managed by systemd. It is purpose-built for SREs, platform engineers, and DevOps teams who need to collect, process, and forward metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from a single declarative configuration.
Why This AMI Instead of a Manual Install
Deploying Alloy from scratch means installing packages, wiring systemd units, configuring a reverse proxy, generating credentials, and hardening the UI endpoint. This image eliminates all of that:
- Zero manual package setup - Alloy is installed from Grafana's official repository and managed by systemd for automatic restarts and clean journald logging.
- Secure by default - The Alloy web UI is bound to the loopback interface only. Nginx fronts it on port 80 behind HTTP Basic Auth with a password generated uniquely per instance on first boot and stored in a root-only file. No shared or default credential ever ships in the image.
- Live component-graph UI - See exactly how telemetry flows through your pipeline, inspect the health of every component, and troubleshoot in real time - all accessible from your browser after authenticating.
- Unauthenticated health endpoint - A dedicated endpoint is exposed for load-balancer and Auto Scaling health probes without requiring credentials.
- Unattended security updates - The OS is fully patched at build time and configured for automatic security updates going forward.
Working Demo Pipeline Out of the Box
The image ships a self-contained demo pipeline that scrapes Alloy's own internal metrics, tags and batches them, bridges them from the Prometheus pipeline into the OpenTelemetry pipeline, and logs a summary locally. Nothing leaves the instance, every component is healthy on first boot, and the component-graph UI is populated immediately. Explore a real working pipeline, then replace it with your own production configuration.
Example Production Use Case
A team running dozens of EC2 instances with mixed exporters (Node Exporter, application metrics, structured logs) can deploy this AMI on each host to consolidate collection into a single Alloy process. From one declarative config, Alloy scrapes local Prometheus endpoints, receives OTLP traces from application SDKs, and forwards everything to Grafana Cloud, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, or any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend - eliminating the need for multiple sidecar agents and reducing operational overhead.
Ship Telemetry Anywhere
Alloy supports forwarding to:
- Prometheus and Grafana Mimir (metrics)
- Grafana Loki (logs)
- Grafana Tempo (traces)
- Grafana Pyroscope (profiles)
- Any OTLP-compatible backend
Quick Start
- Launch the AMI with a security group allowing inbound TCP port 80.
- SSH into the instance and retrieve your unique password from the root-only file.
- Open http:// in your browser and authenticate.
- Explore the live component graph and demo pipeline.
- Edit the Alloy configuration file to define your production pipeline and restart the service.
24/7 Support Included
cloudimg provides around-the-clock technical support covering deployment, upgrades, pipeline configuration, and forwarding telemetry to any supported backend. Support aims to respond within one business day.
Grafana and Grafana Alloy are trademarks of Raintank, Inc. dba Grafana Labs. Grafana Alloy is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.
Highlights
- Grafana Alloy, the vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry Collector distribution - collect, process and forward metrics, logs, traces and profiles from one declarative config, reverse-proxied with nginx and viewable in the built-in component-graph UI
- Secure by default: the Alloy UI is bound to loopback and fronted by nginx HTTP Basic Auth whose password is generated per instance on first boot and stored in a root-only file - no shared or default credential ever ships in the image
- 24/7 technical support from cloudimg for deployment, upgrades, pipeline configuration and forwarding telemetry to Prometheus, Grafana Cloud, Loki, Tempo or any OpenTelemetry backend
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Dimension | Description | Cost/hour |
|---|---|---|
m5.large Recommended | m5.large | $0.08 |
t2.micro | t2.micro instance type | $0.04 |
t3.micro | t3.micro instance type | $0.04 |
m8id.16xlarge | m8id.16xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
r8i-flex.8xlarge | r8i-flex.8xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
r8idb.xlarge | r8idb.xlarge instance type | $0.12 |
m5n.16xlarge | m5n.16xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
r8i-flex.large | r8i-flex.large instance type | $0.08 |
r5d.xlarge | r5d.xlarge instance type | $0.12 |
r7a.metal-48xl | r7a.metal-48xl instance type | $0.24 |
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Grafana Alloy 1.17.1, fully patched, with a self-contained demo telemetry pipeline.
Additional details
Usage instructions
After launch, wait about a minute for first boot to complete, then SSH in as the ubuntu user and read the per-instance web UI password with: sudo cat /root/grafana-alloy-credentials.txt. Open http://<instance-public-ip>/ in a browser and sign in as admin with that password to reach the Grafana Alloy web UI (the live component graph and per-component health). The telemetry pipeline is defined in /etc/alloy/config.alloy - replace it with your own (for example a remote_write to Grafana Cloud, Mimir or Loki) and run: sudo systemctl restart alloy. An unauthenticated health endpoint is served at http://<instance-public-ip>/healthz for load-balancer probes. Full step-by-step instructions, including adding a domain and TLS, are in the deploy guide at https://www.cloudimg.co.uk/guides/grafana-alloy-aws/ .
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24/7 Technical Support from cloudimg
All subscribers receive around-the-clock technical support from cloudimg. Our team assists with:
- Initial deployment and launch configuration
- Retrieving the per-instance HTTP Basic Auth password
- Applying updates and upgrading Alloy versions
- Configuring Alloy telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces, profiles)
- Forwarding data to Prometheus, Grafana Cloud, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, or any OTLP-compatible backend
- Adding a custom domain and TLS certificate in front of the built-in web UI
- Troubleshooting component health and pipeline issues
- Guidance on security group rules and network configuration
Response Time: We aim to respond within one business day.
Contact: Email support@cloudimg.co.uk with your instance ID and a description of the issue. For refund requests, contact us via the same email address.
Quick Start Reference
- Launch the AMI with TCP port 80 open in your security group.
- SSH into the instance.
- Retrieve your unique password from the root-only file.
- Browse to http:// and authenticate with username and generated password.
- Explore the component-graph UI and demo pipeline.
- Edit the Alloy config to define your production pipeline and restart the service.
For detailed guidance on any step, contact support and we will walk you through it.
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