Paulin Todev

Flow UI: Show a graph of the components loaded by modules

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### Request If you load a module using a component such as `module.string`, the UI does not show the sub-graph which `module.string` loaded, with all of its internal Flow components....

For now I'm just adding alerts for spans. In the near future we could also add alerts for metrics and logs.

Document environment variables alongside relevant config

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### Request There are various environment variables (mostly from Go) which can affect the Agent's behaviour. Currently, those are not documented anywhere. It would be nice to add them in...

OtelCol exporters should should only initialise for the telemetry types for which they're configured

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### Request If a River config file contains an `otelcol.exporter` such as `otelcol.exporter.otlp`, that exporter will always create the underlying Collector exporters for logs, metrics, and traces. For example, even...

Rearrange the reference docs for Flow components

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### Request Group the [reference docs for components](https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/flow/reference/components/) inside directories according to their namespace. Instead of every component being right under `/flow/reference/components/`, we could have directories such as: * `/flow/reference/components/discovery`...

Unused `path_prefix` config argument for `pyroscope.scrape`

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### What's wrong? The docs for `pyroscope.scrape` include a [path_prefix](https://grafana.com/docs/agent/v0.38/flow/reference/components/pyroscope.scrape/#profiling_config-block) argument, but the code for `pyroscope.scrape` doesn't seem to do anything with it. We need to get a confirmation from...

Document a migration path from Static mode to Flow for loki.source.file

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### Request Similarly to Static mode, [loki.source.file](https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/flow/reference/components/loki.source.file/) uses a "positions file" which tells it the latest logs that it ingested from a given file. This is useful in case of...

Add `track_timestamps_staleness` to prometheus.scrape

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### Request The `track_timestamps_staleness` feature was [added](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/13060) to Prometheus recently. To pick it up, we would need to upgrade to Prometheus v2.48 or above. `track_timestamps_staleness` is `false` by default in...

Less bloated collection of debug metrics from modules

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### Request "Debug metrics", is referring to metrics available on the Agent's `/metrics` endpoint. Those metrics indicate how various internals are working, and are used for alerts and dashboards which...

[promtail] Clean up metrics generated from logs after a config reload.

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It is possible to generate metrics from log lines in Promtail. If the config file is reloaded, those metrics are currently not cleaned up. This causes a few issues: *...