Grafana Agent

This is release v0.32.1 of the Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the upgrade guide for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions.

Notable changes:

Bugfixes

• Flow: Fixes slow reloading of targets in phlare.scrape component. (@cyriltovena)

• Flow: add a maximum connection lifetime of one hour when tailing logs from loki.source.kubernetes and loki.source.podlogs to recover from an issue where the Kubernetes API server stops responding with logs without closing the TCP connection. (@rfratto)

• Flow: fix issue in loki.source.kubernetes where __pod__uid__ meta label defaulted incorrectly to the container name, causing tailers to never restart. (@rfratto)

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

Installation:

Grafana Agent is currently distributed in plain binary form, Docker container images, a Windows installer, and a Kubernetes install script. Choose whichever fits your use-case best.

Kubernetes

Install directions here.

Docker container:

• https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/agent

Docker containers are published as grafana/agent:v0.32.1. For Windows Docker containers, use grafana/agent:v0.32.1-windows instead.

Windows installer

The Windows installer is provided as a release asset for x64 machines.

Binary

We provide precompiled binary executables for the most common operating systems. Choose from the assets below for your matching operating system.

Note: ppc64le builds are currently considered secondary release targets and do not have the same level of support and testing as other platforms.

Example for the linux operating system on amd64:

# download the binary
curl -O -L "https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/download/v0.32.1/grafana-agent-linux-amd64.zip"

# extract the binary
unzip "grafana-agent-linux-amd64.zip"

# make sure it is executable
chmod a+x "grafana-agent-linux-amd64"

agentctl

agentctl, a tool for helping you interact with the Agent, is available as a Docker image:

Docker containers are published as grafana/agentctl:v0.32.1. For Windows Docker containers, use grafana/agentctl:v0.32.1-windows instead.

Or as a binary. Like before, choose the assets below that matches your operating system. For example, with linux on amd64:

# download the binary
curl -O -L "https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/download/v0.32.1/grafana-agentctl-linux-amd64.zip"

# extract the binary
unzip "grafana-agentctl-linux-amd64.zip"

# make sure it is executable
chmod a+x "grafana-agentctl-linux-amd64"

agent-operator

agent-operator, a Kubernetes Operator for the Grafana Agent, is available only as a Docker image:

docker pull "grafana/agent-operator:v0.32.1"