grafana-alloy 1.13.0

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## [1.13.0](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/compare/v1.12.1...v1.13.0) (2026-02-05)
⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

otelcol: Upgrade to OTel Collector v0.142.0
otelcol.receiver.kafka: The global topic attribute has been deleted; use the topics attributes inside the logs, metrics, and traces blocks instead.
otelcol.exporter > sending_queue > batch > min_size changed from 8192 to 2000 and max_size changed from 0 to 3000

Features 🌟

Add a virtual_node_peer_attributes and virtual_node_extra_label arguments to otelcol.connector.servicegraph (#5058) (20900c6) (@ptodev, @clayton-cornell)
Add an otelcol.processor.metric_start_time component (#5342) (3fb13ac) (@ptodev)
Add job level period, length, and add_cloudwatch_timestamp options and labels_snake_case to CW exporter [backport] (#5355) (60d73b7) (@tmeijn, @clayton-cornell)
Add missing configuration parameter deployment_name_from_replicaset to k8sattributes processor (#5183) (b54ca77) (@dehaansa)
Add parcas symbols upload to pyroscope.ebpf (#4948) (30f2242) (@korniltsev-grafanista, @claude)
Add sharding for loki.write (#4882) (7570d65) (@kalleep, @thampiotr)
Add unexposed otel engine and extension to codebase and change build structure (#5114) (6438176) (@blewis12)
beyla.ebpf: Add meta_cache_address to beyla.ebpf.attributes.kubernetes (#4871) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
beyla.ebpf: Upgrade Beyla to v2.8.5 (f1f457f) (@ptodev, @clayton-cornell)
Change the defaults for sending_queue > batch block inside otelcol.exporter components (#5061) (714a2ed) (@ptodev)
cluster: Support DNS discovery mode prefixes in --cluster.join-addresses flag (#5034) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
converter: Update promtail converter to use file_match block for loki.source.file (#4791) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
Database_observability: add health check collector for postgres component (#5222) (80917b1) (@matthewnolf)
Database_observability: expose exclude_schemas and exclude_databases settings (#5334) (37656f8) (@cristiangreco)
Database_observability: support Azure cloud provider config data (#5245) (d7a469f) (@cristiangreco)
Database_observability: support Azure privatelink db name (#5260) (22e4991) (@cristiangreco)
Database_observability.mysql: support excluding schemas in all collectors [backport] (#5380) (d67268c) (@cristiangreco)
Database_observability.postgres: support excluding DBs in all collectors [backport] (#5383) (165492c) (@cristiangreco)
database_observability: Add health_check collector to validate configuration (#5115) (6d96740) (@matthewnolf)
database_observability: Always send explain plan log for each query including status (#4969) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
database_observability: Append cloud provider information labels to metrics (#4942) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
database_observability: Stop tracking own instrumentation queries (#4991) (0b55557) (@cristiangreco)
deps: Update Prometheus to v3.8.0 and Loki to v3.6.2 (#5035) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
Expose otel subcommand and add user-facing documentation (#5244) (93f20b8) (@blewis12, @thampiotr, @clayton-cornell)
Improve faro.receiver.sourcemaps caching strategy (#4337) (41e655c) (@mateagluhak, @clayton-cornell)
loki.process: Mark stage.windowsevent as GA (#4879) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
loki.source.file: Refactor tailer to reduce resource usage (#5003) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
loki.source.syslog: Implement livedebugging support (#5216) (e26badb) (@x1unix, @dehaansa)
loki.source.syslog: Support cisco-specific syslog fields (#5165) (3230ba0) (@x1unix)
loki.source.syslog: Support raw format (#5140) (923d127) (@x1unix, @clayton-cornell)
mimir.alerts.kubernetes: Add alertmanagerconfig_matcher block to change the matcher strategy (f2b9671) (@timonegk, @ptodev, @clayton-cornell)
mimir.alerts.kubernetes: Add component to discover AlertmanagerConfig Kubernetes resources (#3448) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
mixin: Provide rendered mixin outputs (#5118) (738b9fb) (@thampiotr)
otelcol.auth.basic: Add htpasswd file based authentication (#3916) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
otelcol.connector.count: Add component to count spans, metrics, and logs (#4913) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
otelcol.exporter.file: Add otelcol.exporter.file component to write metrics, logs, and traces to disk with optional rotation, compression, and grouping by resource attribute (#4475) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
otelcol.exporter.prometheus: Add honor_metadata config argument [backport] (#5439) (32cb175)
otelcol.receiver.awss3: Add experimental receiver for traces stored in S3 (#4928) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
otelcol.receiver.kafka: Deprecate the topic attribute inside the logs, metrics, and traces blocks in favour of a new topics attribute. (f1f457f) (@ptodev, @clayton-cornell)
otelcol.receiver.kafka: Remove the global topic attribute (f1f457f) (@ptodev, @clayton-cornell)
otelcol: Upgrade to OTel Collector v0.142.0 (f1f457f) (@ptodev, @clayton-cornell)
prometheus.echo: Add component for local metrics inspection in exposition format (#4105) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
prometheus.exporter.cloudwatch: Add delay option to account for CloudWatch ingestion latency (#4936) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
prometheus.exporter.databricks: Add Databricks exporter component (#5054) (4442836) (@aalhour, @clayton-cornell)
prometheus.operator.scrapeconfigs: Add HTTP service discovery support via httpSDConfigs (#4826) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
prometheus.remote_write: Add metadata support to prometheus.remote_write component, but only if Remote Write v2 has been configured. In order for prometheus.remote_write to receive metadata, prometheus.scrape must be configured with honor_metadata = true. (#5045) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
prometheus: Reduce resource overhead by removing unnecessary labelstore usage (#4890) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
pyroscope.ebpf: Add lazy_mode argument to the pyroscope.ebpf to defer eBPF profiler startup until there are targets to profile (#4824) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
pyroscope.enrich: Add experimental component to enrich profiles using discovery labels (#4797) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
Strip comments from normalized sql text in database_observability.postgres (#5005) (a58721a) (@cristiangreco)
Support setting default scrape limit for prometheus.operator components (#5280) (40ffe08) (@dehaansa)
tracing: Add send_traceparent option to enable traceparent header propagation (#4874) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)

Bug Fixes 🐛

Add support for compressed files for tail package [backport] (#5415) (311662f) (@kalleep)
Allow loki.source.file to read renaming lines of a deleted file before it tries to re open a new one  (#5270) (f8b1de8) (@kalleep)
Compute signatures from files so that loki.source.file can handle atomic writes (#5143) (3090c4a) (@kalleep)
converter: Fix promtail converter to limit Kubernetes discovery to same node (#5046) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
Database_observability: add Azure provider relabeling rules [backport] (#5382) (c121178) (@cristiangreco)
Database_observability: allow setting limit for mysql query_details (#5314) (085f300) (@cristiangreco)
Database_observability: fix race in postgres query samples test (#5315) (4f01753) (@cristiangreco)
Database_observability: grant check only require SELECT . on perf_schema (#5294) (490017c) (@matthewnolf)
Database_observability: reuse cloud provider regexes (#5262) (6009c54) (@cristiangreco)
Database_observability: update BackendXID type to int64 to better map to PG xid [backport] (#5373) (1cb4b0f) (@matthewnolf)
Database_observability: update BackendXmin type to int64 to better map to PG BIGINT (#5296) (d45ccc0) (@matthewnolf)
database_observability.mysql: Add setup_actors collector to avoid tracking own queries (#4978) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
database_observability.mysql: Replace server_id label with hash from server_uuid and hostname (#4943) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
database_observability.postgres: Fix schema_details collection for mixed case table names (#4872) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
database_observability: Improve postgres version parsing for explain plans in database_observability component (#5131) (23c7f37) (@rgeyer)
database_observability: Skip explain plans which lookup individual records and return no rows (#5203) (b7c7cbb) (@rgeyer)
deps: Update npm dependencies (#5190) (cd027e2) (@jharvey10)
docker: Fix log corruption for multiplexed long lines (#4713) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
Ensure the squid exporter wrapper properly brackets ipv6 addresses (#5199) (ee23162) (@dehaansa)
Guard pyroscope otel profiler code with unix go build tag [backport] (#5360) (b1ecdb6) (@korniltsev-grafanista)
HTTP/2 is no longer always disabled in loki.write (#5267) (1c97c2d) (@kalleep)
Invalid handling of id in foreach when using discovery components (#5322) (61fe184), closes #5297 (@thampiotr)
Issues when reading files using non UTF-8 encoding in loki.source.file  (#5259) (4740276) (@kalleep)
loki.process: Implement encoding.TextMarshaler and encoding.TextUnmarshaler for TruncateSourceType [backport] (#5428) (3585393) (@kalleep)
loki.process: Remove extraneous output stage from cri stage pipeline (#5002) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
loki.source.api: Prevent dropping request when relabel rules drop a specific stream. (#4834) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
loki.source.file: Make sure position is recorded when component exit [backport] (#5418) (64fb278) (@kalleep)
loki.source.file: Update tail_from_end to properly handle file encoding [backport] (#5436) (731e8e5) (@kalleep)
mimir.alerts.kubernetes: Fix crash when using Kubernetes secret or configmap in AlertmanagerConfig (#5010) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
mixin: Correct invalid queries in alloy logs dashboard  (#5123) (ad8efd3) (@thampiotr)
Only alert on cluster drift when cluster_name is set (#5181) (8b6f056) (@dehaansa)
otelcol: Allow configuration of force_attempt_http2 and default to true (#5050) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
Perform drain when file is deleted in tail package (#5139) (2e48867) (@kalleep)
Preserve meta labels in loki.source.podlogs (#5097) (23d787c) (@kalleep)
Prevent panic in import.git when update fails (#5198) (577a591) (@dehaansa)
prometheus.exporter.gcp: Preserve colons in extra_filters filter expressions (#5018) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
prometheus.operator: Enable native histogram ingestion in internal scrape manager (#4750) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
relabel: Fix default values for source_labels to prevent labeldrop issues (#5059) (08796f8) (@jharvey10)
Remove Parca debug info upload from user configuration [backport] (#5395) (58eb9cc)
Revert doublestar v4 update [backport] (#5435) (0e9e615) (@kalleep)
Set content-encoding header in loki.write (#5346) (ffd2bea) (@kalleep)
Show correct fallback alloy version instead of v1.13.0 (#5110) (e2e96e9) (@jharvey10)
Update to use doublestar v4 (#5148) (d8f0b3e) (@kalleep)

Upgrading
Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:
Installation
Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.

View the full release notes at https://github.com/grafana/alloy/releases/tag/v1.13.0.

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