BRIDGING ALLOY AND OPENTELEMETRY: THE OTEL ENGINE IS NOW IN PUBLIC PREVIEW

Summary from the TLDR DevOps newsletter

Grafana Alloy's OpenTelemetry engine is now in Public Preview as of Alloy v1.21.0. It runs standard OpenTelemetry Collector YAML configuration and supports Fleet Management for remote configuration. Users can run the OTel engine alongside the default engine or switch between them using an environment variable.