Building a Kubernetes Observability Pipeline with Grafana Alloy
In my previous post on Kubernetes metrics I walked through what the various metric endpoints in a cluster actually expose — kubelet, cAdvisor, kube-state-metrics, and friends. That post answered the what. This one answers the how: how do you actually collect all of it reliably, ship it to Grafana Cloud, and not blow your observability budget in the process? The answer we landed on is a self-contained Helm chart built around Grafana Alloy as the central scraping agent. Here’s how it works. ...