v1.3.0-rc.1

This is release v1.3.0-rc.1 of Grafana Alloy.

Upgrading

Read the release notes for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Breaking changes

• [otelcol.exporter.otlp,otelcol.exporter.loadbalancing]: Change the default gRPC load balancing strategy.
  The default value for the balancer_name attribute has changed to round_robin
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#10319

Breaking changes to non-GA functionality

• Update Public preview remotecfg argument from metadata to attributes. (@erikbaranowski)

• The default value of the argument unmatched in the block routes of the component beyla.ebpf was changed from unset to heuristic (@marctc)

Features

• Added community components support, enabling community members to implement and maintain components. (@wildum)

• A new otelcol.exporter.debug component for printing OTel telemetry from
  other otelcol components to the console. (@BarunKGP)

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guide for how to install Grafana Alloy.