- merge discovery.relabel "metrics" into prometheus.relabel "filter"
(instance label + keep-filter in one component)
- move logs 'instance' label to loki.write external_labels (DRY, one source)
- drop alloy container log exclusion (~500kb/day trivial; adds visibility
into alloy's own health via loki)
net: -5 lines, one fewer component, same functionality
correctness:
- drop dead ALLOY_HOSTNAME env passthrough (alloy uses constants.hostname)
- tighten netdev regex so iface names like 'lore0' no longer match 'lo'
- widen alloy-container drop to /alloy.* (catches renamed variants)
more info for same cost (~80 extra series, still ~1.6k of 10k):
- add MemFree, disk IOPS (reads/writes_completed), disk saturation
(io_time_weighted), inode tracking (filesystem_files, _files_free),
network drops, container working_set memory, container_last_seen,
machine_scrape_error
- add journal unit + level labels (log querying by service/severity)
- docker discovery refresh 60s -> 5s (fast pickup of new containers)
efficiency:
- loki batch_wait=5s, batch_size=1MiB (~5x fewer push requests)
layout:
- drop redundant expose: [12345] (other containers can reach it anyway)
- node_exporter (host) + cadvisor (containers) via one scrape job
- docker container logs + systemd journal to loki
- filter regex keeps only metrics needed for standard dashboards
- sized for grafana cloud free tier (~10k active series cap)
- shell env driven (no .env file); fail-fast on missing vars
- least-privilege: cap_drop all, no privileged, no pid host, ui not published
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