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What is Grafana Agent? Senior Software Engineer Paschalis Tsilias tells us about what telemetry collectors do, why they're useful, what you'd have to do without them, and how to get started with Grafana Agent. He is joined by Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh. Grafana Agent repo: https://github.com/grafana/agent Documentation on Grafana Agent: https://grafana.com/docs/agent/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 Introductions and announcements 00:04:04 What is Grafana Agent? 00:07:20 What is a telemetry collector? 00:09:53 Question: Is Agent a specialized version of the OTel collector? 00:11:54 Difference between Agent and other telemetry collectors 00:16:08 Alternatives to using Agent 00:18:53 Question: How can you forward messages from Promtail logs to Kafka? 00:21:39 Flow mode vs. static mode - what's the difference? 00:28:40 Directed Acyclic Graph of components from Agent 00:34:09 Installation options for Grafana Agent 00:35:49 Question: When will the cluster mode for Grafana Agent be production ready? 00:37:54 Other options to scale Grafana Agent horizontally 00:39:36 How to get the DAG UI from Agent 00:41:56 Performance considerations for Grafana Agent 00:43:16 Metrics Endpoint on Grafana Cloud vs. local Grafana Agent 00:47:17 Continuous profiling support via Pyroscope in Grafana Agent 00:50:10 The future of Grafana Agent 00:55:04 Five-minute summary of everything in this episode --- Contact Paschalis: X: https://twitter.com/tpaschalis_ GitHub: https://github.com/tpaschalis Site: https://tpaschalis.me/ Contact Nicole: Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole GitHub: https://github.com/nicolevanderhoeven Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com Contact Paul: X: https://twitter.com/javaducky Site: https://javaducky.com/ Learn more about Grafana Labs: Website: https://grafana.com Repo: https://github.com/grafana/grafana