Grafana Alloy
Nova installs Grafana Alloy on Linux hosts, manages collector enrollment, and routes host telemetry into managed metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerts.
Grafana Alloy is the collector that runs on each monitored Linux host. Nova uses Alloy because it can collect host metrics and logs, run as a service, and be configured centrally for a focused managed monitoring workflow.
In Nova V1, customers do not need to design Alloy pipelines from scratch. The product creates a collector, provides an install command, and manages the expected remote configuration for the supported telemetry scope.
A Nova admin creates a collector in the control plane and receives a generated installer. The installer sets up Grafana Alloy, writes the remote config URL, starts the Alloy service, and lets Nova track whether the collector is online, warning, offline, or never connected.
This creates a controlled enrollment path with one-time tokens, tenant limits, and usage tracking instead of unmanaged agents sending telemetry without a tenant context.
Nova owns the tenant model, role mapping, collector status, remote config, gateway routing, Grafana organization mapping, and core dashboards. That lets the customer focus on monitored hosts instead of maintaining the observability platform.