Hands on Exercises Overview | Grafana Alloy for Beginners Episode 13

Nov 5, 2025

🏁 The moment to test your mad Alloy skills is here!

Join Lisa Jung and Mischa Thompson from Grafana Labs for an overview of the four hands-on exercises and see how much you’ve learned throughout the series.

This hands-on exercise section consists of four missions:

🗝️ The Hidden Key
⚡ The Cardinality Crisis
🎯 Attribute Alignment
🛡️ Redact and Protect

🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️ Your mission, should you choose to accept it, awaits you in the Mission section of the series repo.

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RESOURCES:
Grafana Alloy for Beginners series repo
https://github.com/grafana/Grafana-Alloy-for-Beginners

Grafana Alloy documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/

Alloy configuration blocks
https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/reference/config-blocks/

Alloy components
https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/reference/components/

Collect and forward data with Grafana Alloy https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/

Grafana Alloy Tutorials
https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/tutorials/

The learning environment was based off of grafana/intro-to-mltp
https://github.com/grafana/intro-to-mltp

This repo is a great resource for learning about the Grafana stack end to end, so check it out if you'd like a full end-to-end working example!

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