Grafana Agent

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Notes

Grafana Agent has reached End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. It is recommended migrating to the Grafana Alloy collector, which is built on the foundation of Grafana Agent Flow.

Release notes
0.40.4 · 1y+
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This is release v0.40.4 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Security fixes

Enhancements

  • Update prometheus.exporter.kafka with the following functionalities (@wildum):

    • GSSAPI config
    • enable/disable PA_FX_FAST
    • set a TLS server name
    • show the offset/lag for all consumer group or only the connected ones
    • set the minimum number of topics to monitor
    • enable/disable auto-creation of requested topics if they don't already exist
    • regex to exclude topics / groups
    • added metric kafka_broker_info

  • In prometheus.exporter.kafka, the interpolation table used to compute estimated lag metrics is now pruned on metadata_refresh_interval instead of prune_interval_seconds. (@wildum)

Bugfixes

  • Update gcp_exporter to a newer version with a patch for incorrect delta histograms (@kgeckhart)

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

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent: