+++ draft = "True" +++
Grafana Agent is an telemetry collector for sending metrics, logs, and trace data to the opinionated Grafana observability stack. It works best with:
- Grafana Cloud
- Grafana Enterprise Stack
- OSS deployments of Grafana Loki, Prometheus, Cortex, and Grafana Tempo
- Grafana Agent uses less memory on average than Prometheus – by doing less
(only focusing on
remote_write-related functionality). - Grafana Agent allows for deploying multiple instances of the Agent in a cluster and only scraping metrics from targets that are running on the same host. This allows for distributing memory requirements across the cluster rather than pressurizing a single node.