Grafana Agent

This is release v0.3.1 of the Grafana Cloud Agent.

Notable changes:

• [BUGFIX] A typo in the Tanka configs and Kubernetes manifests that prevents the Agent launching with v0.3.0 has been fixed (@captncraig)

• [BUGFIX] Fixed a bug where Tanka mixins could not be used due to an issue with the folder placement enhancement (@rfratto)

• [ENHANCEMENT] agentctl and the config API will now validate that the YAML they receive are valid instance configs. (@rfratto)

• [FEATURE] The Agent has upgraded its vendored Prometheus to v2.18.1 (@gotjosh, @rfratto)

Installation:

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

Kubernetes Install Script

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/agent/v0.3.1/production/kubernetes/install.sh)" | kubectl apply -f -

Docker container:

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

docker pull "grafana/agent:v0.3.1"

Binary

We provide precompiled binary executables for the most common operating systems. Choose from the assets below for your matching operating system. Example for the linux operating system on amd64:

# download the binary
curl -O -L "https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/download/v0.3.1/agent-linux-amd64.zip"

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

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

agentctl

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

docker pull "grafana/agentctl:v0.3.1"

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/v0.3.1/agentctl-linux-amd64.zip"

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

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