| In advance: I like the Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir Loki stack BUT: I have difficulties understanding their product lineup and roadmap. Everything is named Grafana something. Grafana the company, Grafana the monitoring Frontend, Grafana Agent, Grafana Agent Flow, Grafana Agent Operator, Grafana Operator. It is easy to mix things up especially if you talk to someone who is not in the Grafana world. They also seem to change their mind quiet fast on how users are supposed to send metrics/logs. First there was the loki, prometheus clients, then Grafana Agent Operator, then Grafana Agent Flow mode and now they announced alloy at kubecon, immediately deprecating other solutions.
All of wich do more or less the same - as far as I know. These iterations are too fast for companies to develop trust in their solution. Even in private test clusters I have trouble catching up. And I have to confess the the new alloy solution did not make a good first impression. I dont't know why it replaces the Agent Flow mode and even worse, instead of sticking to k8s standards it uses its own custom configuration language that does not seem to have any advantages. I hope they figure something out that works for base tasks and improve that solution over time instead of doing something new every year. |