v1.14.1

1.14.1 (2026-03-17)

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Correctly handle the deprecated topic field in otelcol.receiver.kafka configuration [backport] (#5730) (4393054)
  (@thampiotr)
• deps: Update module golang.org/x/net to v0.51.0 [SECURITY] [backport] (#5690) (9e8616c)
• loki.process: Protect against json that does not look like docker json format [backport] (#5773) (a0f1f8a)
  (@kalleep)
• loki.source.file: Keep positions for compressed files when reading is finished [backport] (#5741) (4f6d548)
  (@kalleep)
• otelcol.receiver.datadog: Expose intake proxy and trace_id_cache_size settings [backport] (#5785) (6d99ab5)
  (@thampiotr)
• prometheus.scrape: Update arguments and targets even if scrape_native_histograms and extra_metrics are updated [backport] (#5792) (76d398f) (@ptodev)

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.

v1.14.0

1.14.0 (2026-03-06)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• loki.secretfilter: Some config options are removed entirely:
  • partial_mask (replaced with redact_percent)
  • allowlist (now controlled with custom gitleaks config)
  • enable_entropy
  • include_generic (now controlled with custom gitleaks config)
  • types (now controlled with custom gitleaks config)
• otelcol.receiver.prometheus: otelcol.receiver.prometheus no longer sets start times of OTLP metrics. Grafana Cloud and Mimir do not currently use OTLP metric start times. If you do want your metrics to have them, you can use otelcol.processor.metric_start_time with strategy set to true_reset_point to get the same behaviour.

Features 🌟

• Add automatic reconnection to database_observability components (#5444) (553f967)
  (@gaantunes)
• Add limited type checking for validate command (#5076) (045fb76)
  (@kalleep)
• database_observability.mysql: Collect client info for query samples (#5552) (257a699)
  (@matthewnolf)
• database_observability.postgres: Add exclude databases/users for logs collector (#5569) (5dddd9b)
  (@cristiangreco)
• database_observability.postgres: Add logs collector (#5445) (46d79d4)
  (@gaantunes, @cursoragent, @clayton-cornell, @cristiangreco)
• database_observability.postgres: Allow excluding queries ran by specific users (#5544) (2d0ca15)
  (@cristiangreco)
• Deprecate prometheus.write.queue (#5509) (ee0f227)
  (@kgeckhart, @clayton-cornell)
• Introduce SeriesRefMappingStore (#5522) (33ee297)
  (@x1unix, @kgeckhart)
• local.file_match, loki.source.file: Match multiple files using doublestar {...} expressions (#5470) (284e48f)
  (@ptodev)
• loki.process: Add debug metrics for CRI stage to track truncation of lines and partial line flushing (#5399) (a1728f6)
  (@ptodev)
• mixin: Add OTel Engine Overview dashboard (#5573) (df52116)
  (@thampiotr, @cursoragent)
• mixin: Add zipped dashboards as a release artifact (#5603) (4f7fe85)
  (@thampiotr)
• otel: Add receivers used in the otel k8s helm chart presets (#5466) (100f6ea)
  (@kgeckhart, @blewis12)
• otelcol.receiver.prometheus: Remove requirement to run Alloy with --stability.level=experimental in order to translate Prometheus native histograms into OTLP exponential histograms. (#5308) (237e985)
  (@ptodev)
• otelcol: Expose missing tail_sampling drop and bytes_limiting (6021154)
  (@thampiotr)
• prometheus.exporter.postgres: Update to version 0.19.0 and expose new collectors settings (#4640) (aa01e45)
  (@cristiangreco, @clayton-cornell)
• prometheus.exporter.postgres: Update to version 0.19.1 (#5659) (9f4e88f)
  (@cristiangreco)
• Update github exporter with github app authentication (#5377) (ca741a6)
  (@dehaansa, @clayton-cornell)
• Update grafana cadvisor fork to v0.54.1 (#5447) (2a3aba0)
  (@dehaansa, @blewis12)
• Upgrade prometheus to version 0.309.1 (#5479) (633944b)
  (@jharvey10)

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Add /FORCEREGISTRY flag to windows installer (#5517) (6b22d4e)
  (@kalleep, @clayton-cornell)
• Add missing otelcol alias to make OTel Engine work with OTel Collector helm chart (#5473) (90478cd)
  (@thampiotr)
• controller: Prevent duplicate loaders from being created (#5446) (31d5eea)
  (@kgeckhart)
• database_observability.mysql: Skip wait events with NULL timer_wait (#5478) (48750e5)
  (@cristiangreco)
• database_observability.postgres: Correctly handle table name casing when parsing postgres queries (#5440) (7cca2b9)
  (@cristiangreco)
• deps: Update module github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 to v5.16.5 [SECURITY] (#5485) (71a1b8b)
• Ensure Valid/Clear States in Alloy Engine Extension (#5551) (99ad024)
  (@blewis12)
• Expose missing otelcol.processor.tail_sampling options (#5606) (6021154)
  (@thampiotr)
• loki.process: Registration of stage.metric when used inside stage.match (#5460) (81caf72)
  (@kalleep)
• loki.source.docker: Parse timestamp correctly when log line only contains newline (#5489) (162011d)
  (@kalleep)
• loki.source.file: Close file if we cannot find encoding (#5528) (56bcb26)
  (@kalleep)
• mixin: Support OTel exporter batching (#5618) (f2b7cb8)
  (@thampiotr)
• prometheus.echo: Return zero for SeriesRef (#5622) (31a8680)
  (@kgeckhart)
• prometheus.exporter.cloudwatch: Respect debug flag (#5469) (44ade00)
  (@holgerjh)
• prometheus.receive_http: Bump prometheus patch for bugfix (#5505) (b7a1d05)
  (@kgeckhart)
• prometheus.remote_write: Fix sent_batch_duration_seconds measuring before the request was sent [backport] (#5698) (150aecb)
  (@kgeckhart)
• Use read-write mutex locks to prevent concurrent tagsCache map reads and writes (#5534) (8efed2e)
  (@bennettatoms)

Performance

• loki.secretfilter: Change secretfilter implementation to use Gitleaks (#5503) (08e265c) (@kleimkuhler)

Upgrading

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

v1.14.0-rc.1

Release Candidate 1 for v1.14.0

This is a release candidate and should be used for testing purposes only.

⚠️ This is a pre-release. Do not use in production.

Changes

See the release PR #5662 for the full changelog.

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.

v1.14.0-rc.0

Release Candidate 0 for v1.14.0

This is a release candidate and should be used for testing purposes only.

⚠️ This is a pre-release. Do not use in production.

Changes

See the release PR #5662 for the full changelog.

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.

v1.13.2

1.13.2 (2026-02-23)

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Expose missing otelcol.processor.tail_sampling options [backport] (#5614) (3225ea3) (@thampiotr)
• mixin: Add zipped dashboards as a release artifact [backport] (#5625) (37ff20f) (@thampiotr)
• profiler: Backport Go 1.26 gopclntab textStart fix (#5572) (5ca05c9) (@marcsanmi)
• prometheus.exporter.postgres: Update version of the exporter fork to fix pg_settings (#5574) (62a52f8) (@cristiangreco)
• pyroscope.ebpf: Backport dotnet nibble map fix (#5553) (6c62760) (@marcsanmi)

Upgrading

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

Installation

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v1.13.1

1.13.1 (2026-02-13)

Bug Fixes 🐛

• database_observability.mysql: Make query sample text nullable in MySQL query details collector [backport] (#5519) (fc49bfe) (@fridgepoet)
• database_observability.mysql: Skip wait events with NULL timer_wait [backport] (#5521) (2f43c91) (@cristiangreco)
• database_observability.postgres: Improvements to SET search_path for postgres explain plans [backport] (#5520) (ecbb577) (@rgeyer)
• loki.process: Registration of stage.metric when used inside stage.match [backport] (#5495) (2bbc37e)
• loki.source.docker: Parse timestamp correctly when log line only contains newline [backport] (#5496) (55a82f0) (@kalleep)
• loki.source.file: Close file if we cannot find encoding [backport] (#5531) (ccda4a5) (@kalleep)
• prometheus.receive_http: Bump prometheus patch for bugfix [backport] (#5516) (b3531fb) (@kgeckhart)
• scheduling: Shutdown runnables with a timeout before starting new ones [backport] (#5443) (d446610) (@kgeckhart)

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.

v1.13.0

1.13.0 (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) (b43864b) (@skl)
• 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) (d2fda91) (@x1unix)
• converter: Update promtail converter to use file_match block for loki.source.file (#4791) (a42f386) (@kalleep)
• 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) (03a5a20) (@rgeyer)
• database_observability: Append cloud provider information labels to metrics (#4942) (166829e) (@matthewnolf)
• database_observability: Stop tracking own instrumentation queries (#4991) (0b55557) (@cristiangreco)
• deps: Update Prometheus to v3.8.0 and Loki to v3.6.2 (#5035) (01c4a62) (@thampiotr)
• 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) (22de0cf) (@kgeckhart)
• loki.source.file: Refactor tailer to reduce resource usage (#5003) (688da66) (@kalleep)
• 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) (6f2396e) (@ptodev)
• mixin: Provide rendered mixin outputs (#5118) (738b9fb) (@thampiotr)
• otelcol.auth.basic: Add htpasswd file based authentication (#3916) (c564d09) (@pkarakal)
• otelcol.connector.count: Add component to count spans, metrics, and logs (#4913) (b1cb806) (@hhertout)
• 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) (1aef0ac) (@madhub)
• otelcol.exporter.prometheus: Add honor_metadata config argument [backport] (#5439) (32cb175)
• otelcol.receiver.awss3: Add experimental receiver for traces stored in S3 (#4928) (bc3885b) (@x1unix)
• 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 `top...

v1.13.0-rc.4

Release Candidate 4 for v1.13.0

This is a release candidate and should be used for testing purposes only.

⚠️ This is a pre-release. Do not use in production.

Changes

feat(otelcol.exporter.prometheus): Add honor_metadata config argument #5439
fix(loki.source.file): Update tail_from_end to properly handle file encoding #5436
fix: Revert doublestar v4 update #5435
fix(loki.process): Implement encoding.TextMarshaler and encoding.TextUnmarshaler for TruncateSourceType #5428

See the release PR #5351 for the full changelog.

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.

v1.13.0-rc.3

Release Candidate 3 for v1.13.0

This is a release candidate and should be used for testing purposes only.

⚠️ This is a pre-release. Do not use in production.

Changes

This RC contains a few changes on top of the previous RC2:

fix: Add support for compressed files for tail package #5415
perf(loki.source.file): Reduce allocations during file reading #5416
fix(loki.source.file): Make sure position is recorded when component exit #5418

See the release PR #5351 for the full changelog.

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.

v1.13.0-rc.2

Release Candidate 2 for v1.13.0

This is a release candidate and should be used for testing purposes only.

⚠️ This is a pre-release. Do not use in production.

Changes

This RC contains a few changes on top of the previous RC1:

feat: Database_observability.postgres: support excluding DBs in all collectors #5383
fix: Database_observability: add Azure provider relabeling rules #5382
feat: Database_observability.mysql: support excluding schemas in all collectors #5380
fix: Database_observability: update BackendXID type to int64 to better map to PG xid #5373

See the release PR #5351 for the full changelog.

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.