diff --git a/observability/cockpit/how-to/send-metrics-with-grafana-alloy.mdx b/observability/cockpit/how-to/send-metrics-with-grafana-alloy.mdx index a724e3c631..67d51eb856 100644 --- a/observability/cockpit/how-to/send-metrics-with-grafana-alloy.mdx +++ b/observability/cockpit/how-to/send-metrics-with-grafana-alloy.mdx @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ categories: The Grafana Alloy agent is a component used in observability and monitoring setups, to collect and send metrics, logs, and traces from your applications, services, and infrastructure to observability platforms, such as Cockpit. -This page explains how to configure the Grafana Alloy agent to push your metrics and visualize them in Grafana. You can use it to **push your data from Scaleway resources or external resources**. +This page explains how to configure the Grafana Alloy agent to push your metrics and visualize them in Grafana. You can use it to **push your data from Scaleway resources or external/custom resources**. For the sake of this documentation, we are using Grafana Alloy on macOS. Refer to the [official Grafana documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/get-started/) to find the commands to use depending on your operating system of choice. @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ For the sake of this documentation, we are using Grafana Alloy on macOS. Refer t - A Scaleway account logged into the [console](https://console.scaleway.com) - [Retrieved your Grafana credentials](/observability/cockpit/how-to/retrieve-grafana-credentials/) - [Installed Grafana Alloy](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/get-started/install/) - - [Created a data source of the metrics type](/observability/cockpit/how-to/create-external-data-sources/) + - [Created a custom data source of the metrics type](/observability/cockpit/how-to/create-external-data-sources/) - A [token](/observability/cockpit/how-to/create-token/) with push permissions for metrics in the **same region as your metrics**