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{{< admonition type="caution" >}}
Grafana Alloy is the new name for our distribution of the OTel collector.
Grafana Agent has been deprecated and is in Long-Term Support (LTS) through October 31, 2025. Grafana Agent will reach an End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025.
Read more about why we recommend migrating to [Grafana Alloy][alloy].

[alloy]: https://grafana.com/blog/2024/04/09/grafana-alloy-opentelemetry-collector-with-prometheus-pipelines/
{{< /admonition >}}
