diff --git a/docs/sources/_index.md b/docs/sources/_index.md index be064bb4a4..e551813445 100644 --- a/docs/sources/_index.md +++ b/docs/sources/_index.md @@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ cards: - title: Reference href: ./reference/ description: Read the reference documentation about the command line tools, configuration blocks, components, and standard library. + - title: Collect OpenTelemetry data + href: ./tasks/collect-opentelemetry-data/ + description: You can configure Alloy to collect OpenTelemetry-compatible data and forward it to any OpenTelemetry-compatible endpoint. Learn how to configure OpenTelemetry data delivery, configure batching, and receive OpenTelemetry data over OTLP. + - title: Collect and forward Prometheus metrics + href: ./tasks/collect-prometheus-metrics/ + description: You can configure Alloy to collect Prometheus metrics and forward them to any Prometheus-compatible database. Learn how to configure metrics delivery and collect metrics from Kubernetes Pods. --- {{< docs/hero-simple key="hero" >}} @@ -59,17 +65,7 @@ You can deploy {{< param "PRODUCT_NAME" >}} anywhere within your IT infrastructu ## What can {{% param "PRODUCT_NAME" %}} do? {{< param "PRODUCT_NAME" >}} is more than just observability signals like metrics, logs, and traces. It provides many features that help you quickly find and process your data in complex environments. -Some of these features include: - -* **Custom components:** You can use {{< param "PRODUCT_NAME" >}} to create and share custom components. - Custom components combine a pipeline of existing components into a single, easy-to-understand component that's just a few lines long. - You can use pre-built custom components from the community, ones packaged by Grafana, or create your own. -* **GitOps compatibility:** {{< param "PRODUCT_NAME" >}} uses frameworks to pull configurations from Git, S3, HTTP endpoints, and just about any other source. -* **Clustering support:** {{< param "PRODUCT_NAME" >}} has native clustering support. - Clustering helps distribute the workload and ensures you have high availability. - You can quickly create horizontally scalable deployments with minimal resource and operational overhead. -* **Security:** {{< param "PRODUCT_NAME" >}} helps you manage authentication credentials and connect to HashiCorp Vault servers or Kubernetes clusters to retrieve Kubernetes secrets. -* **Debugging utilities:** {{< param "PRODUCT_NAME" >}} provides debugging tools such as an embedded [user interface][UI] to help you identify and resolve configuration problems. +Some of these features include custom components, GitOps compatibility, clustering support, security, and debugging utilities. Refer to the {{< param "PRODUCT_NAME" >}} [Introduction] for more information on these and other key features. ## Explore @@ -82,4 +78,4 @@ Some of these features include: [Tempo]: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/ [Mimir]: https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/ [Pyroscope]: https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/ -[UI]: ./tasks/debug/#alloy-ui +[Introduction]: ./introduction/ \ No newline at end of file