Paulin Todev

Unfortunately I didn't have time to work on this this week, and I was unsuccessful with my attempts to replicate it. I used the Grafana Agent docker compose examples and...

I think we should firstly decide on what the user experience should be. For example: * What is the syntax for loading plugins? * What is the syntax for using...

For API endpoints like this, would it be good to require extra authentication when calling the Agent API? If I understand correctly, at the moment there is no authentication. Especially...

This looks related to [an issue](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/31683) in the OTel repo, which is [fixed](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/32210) in [v0.99](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/releases/tag/v0.99.0). We will need to update the OTel dependency in Alloy to pick up the fix.

Out of curiosity, why is it necessary to replace D3?

Hello, I'd also be happy to work on this in the next few weeks/months and I'd be happy to collaborate with anyone else who is interested. I could make it...

@yurishkuro I'm not sure how we could generate sufficient docs using the protobuf approach. For example, where would the description string of each config attribute go inside the protobuf?

Maybe the descriptions of the arguments could go into comments inside the proto file, and then they can be parsed using something like [protoc-gen-doc](https://github.com/pseudomuto/protoc-gen-doc)? It seems like `protoc-gen-doc` can also...

I personally like the protobuf approach: * It's easier to read than json. * I suppose it'll work well with config arguments which are shared across components (e.g. HTTP server...

> I don't know if having default values for fields is actually a requirement I believe it is, because the docs need to include it. > as long as there...