v0.31.0-rc.0

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This is release v0.31.0-rc.0 of the Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the upgrade guide for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions.

BREAKING CHANGES: This release has breaking changes. Please read entries
carefully and consult the upgrade guide for specific instructions.

Notable changes:

• A Grafana Agent Helm chart is now available!
• Windows Docker containers are now available! Windows images are published with a -windows suffix.
• Several new Grafana Agent Flow components have been added:
  • phlare.scrape and phlare.write let you collect and send continuous profiles to Phlare.
  • mimir.rules.kubernetes lets you discover PrometheusRule CRDs on Kubernetes to automatically configure Mimir alerting and recording rules.
  • Many new loki.* components have been added, including the ability to translate between otelcol and loki pipelines.
• The Promtail limit stage is now supported in the PodLogs resource for Grafana Agent Operator.

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation:

Grafana Agent is currently distributed in plain binary form, Docker container images, a Windows installer, and a Kubernetes install script. Choose whichever fits your use-case best.

Kubernetes

Install directions here.

Docker container:

• https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/agent

Docker containers are published as grafana/agent:v0.31.0-rc.0. For Windows Docker containers, use grafana/agent:v0.31.0-rc.0-windows instead.

Windows installer

The Windows installer is provided as a release asset for x64 machines.

Binary

We provide precompiled binary executables for the most common operating systems. Choose from the assets below for your matching operating system.

Note: ppc64le builds are currently considered secondary release targets and do not have the same level of support and testing as other platforms.

Example for the linux operating system on amd64:

# download the binary
curl -O -L "https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/download/v0.31.0-rc.0/agent-linux-amd64.zip"

# extract the binary
unzip "agent-linux-amd64.zip"

# make sure it is executable
chmod a+x "agent-linux-amd64"

agentctl

agentctl, a tool for helping you interact with the Agent, is available as a Docker image:

Docker containers are published as grafana/agentctl:v0.31.0-rc.0. For Windows Docker containers, use grafana/agentctl:v0.31.0-rc.0-windows instead.

Or as a binary. Like before, choose the assets below that matches your operating system. For example, with linux on amd64:

# download the binary
curl -O -L "https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/download/v0.31.0-rc.0/agentctl-linux-amd64.zip"

# extract the binary
unzip "agentctl-linux-amd64.zip"

# make sure it is executable
chmod a+x "agentctl-linux-amd64"

agent-operator

agent-operator, a Kubernetes Operator for the Grafana Agent, is available only as a Docker image:

docker pull "grafana/agent-operator:v0.31.0-rc.0"

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