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title: "Collect and forward data with Grafana Alloy | Grafana Alloy documentation"
description: "Configure Grafana Alloy to collect and forward data"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Collect and forward data with Grafana Alloy

- [Choose a Grafana Alloy component](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/choose-component/)
- [Set up meta-monitoring to collect Alloy telemetry](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/metamonitoring/)
- [Receive traces and metrics from Datadog-instrumented applications](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/datadog-traces-metrics/)
- [Collect Kubernetes logs and forward them to Loki](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/logs-in-kubernetes/)
- [Collect Azure Event Hubs logs and forward them to Loki](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/azure-event-hubs-logs/)
- [Collect Prometheus metrics](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/prometheus-metrics/)
- [Collect Prometheus native histograms](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/prometheus-native-histograms/)
- [Collect OpenTelemetry data and forward it to any OpenTelemetry-compatible endpoint](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/opentelemetry-data/)
- [Collect OpenTelemetry data and forward to Grafana](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/opentelemetry-to-lgtm-stack/)
- [Collect Amazon Elastic Container Service or AWS Fargate OpenTelemetry data](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/collect/ecs-opentelemetry-data/)