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OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
https://grafana.com/oss/alloy
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Drop FreeBSD support #1529

Open wildum opened 3 months ago

wildum commented 3 months ago

FreeBSD is not supported by the Otel collector. As an Otel distribution, it makes sense to align on the platforms that Otel supports, or else we end up making build exceptions for components that bring dependencies that are not supported on FreeBSD (for example: datadog exporter).

On this day, the number of reported Alloy instances running on FreeBSD is very small.

ahankinson commented 2 months ago

That's too bad. I just found this issue when looking for more info on how to configure and run alloy on FreeBSD, since I'm starting to migrate my tooling.

1992kk commented 2 months ago

We plan on using Grafana Alloy instead of building Otel collector as an agent as it supports FreeBSD(lot of hosts) natively.

There is no other agent in this space apart from Grafana Alloy that supports FreeBSD OS.

wildum commented 2 months ago

The decision is not final and the next major release is still far in the future. It will depend on how much effort it is to keep it and how many people want us to keep it

ahankinson commented 2 months ago

OK, so I'm registering my support for keeping it!

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skip2networks commented 1 month ago

We're working on deploying Alloy at scale on FreeBSD-based systems. +1 for keeping FreeBSD.

ptodev commented 1 month ago

Adding build exceptions for components that don't work with FreeBSD doesn't sound like a lot of effort. If that's all we need to do, IMO we can keep the FreeBSD builds.