# Grafana Alloy (/docs/runtime/components/grafana-alloy)



Component Category [#component-category]

Monitoring and debugging / telemetry collection

Component Description [#component-description]

Grafana Alloy is a telemetry collector that can gather, process, and forward logs, metrics, traces, and related signals.

Why It Is Used [#why-it-is-used]

In BullSequana AI Runtime, Alloy acts as the collection agent that helps move telemetry from workloads and infrastructure into the observability stack in a consistent way.

Learn More [#learn-more]

* [Grafana Alloy documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/)
* [grafana/alloy on GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/alloy)

Interacts With [#interacts-with]

* `Grafana Loki`, which receives the log streams collected by Alloy.
* `Prometheus`, which scrapes Alloy metrics through the service monitor setup.
* Kubernetes workloads across the platform, because Alloy runs as a daemonset and collects node and pod-level telemetry.