# monitoring/alloy
dir: monitoring/alloy

index: monitoring/alloy/.pi-map.index.md

## role
Centralized configuration for collecting and forwarding container logs to the monitoring system's log aggregation backend.
## files
- config.alloy | Configures Alloy to scrape Docker container logs and forward them to a local Loki instance | dep: docker, loki, discovery.docker, discovery.relabel, loki.source.docker, loki.write
## arch
Declarative agent-based collection pattern using Grafana Alloy's pipeline architecture to scrape Docker logs and ship them to Loki.
## tags
docker, loki, discovery, config, configures, alloy, scrape, container
## symbols
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## workflows
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## dirty
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