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‎content/en/blog/releases/2025.X/2025.7.md‎

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[Observability][] has been updated to use [Grafana Alloy instead of Promtail for ingesting logs to Grafana Loki][Observability - Migrated from Promtail to Grafana Alloy].
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[Observability][] has been updated to:
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* use [Grafana Alloy instead of Promtail for ingesting logs to Grafana Loki][Observability - Migrated from Promtail to Grafana Alloy].
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* update the following [components within the Observability platform][Observability Upgrades] to the latest versions:
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* Grafana - 12.1.1
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##### Migrated from Promtail to Grafana Alloy
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`{{% ctx %}} Observability` has been updated to use [Grafana Alloy][] instead of [Promtail][] for ingesting logs to [Grafana Loki][]. This is due to [Promtail][] having been deprecated and marked as end-of-life on the 2nd of March 2026.
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{{% ctx %}} Observability has been updated to use [Grafana Alloy][] instead of [Promtail][] for ingesting logs to [Grafana Loki][]. This is due to [Promtail][] having been deprecated and marked as end-of-life on the 2nd of March 2026.
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{{% alert title="Note" %}}
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There is currently not documentation on how to migrate from `Promtail` to `Grafana Alloy`. This will be added in `2025.9`.
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There is currently no documentation on how to migrate from `Promtail` to `Grafana Alloy`. This will be added in `2025.9`.
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##### Observability Upgrades
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Grafana and Grafana Loki have been updated to the latest versions, all related documentation and screenshots have been updated to reflect these changes.
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* Grafana - 12.1.1
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* Grafana Loki - 3.5.5
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[Loki 3.5.5]: {{< url path="Grafana.SelfManaged.Downloads.GrafanaLoki.3.5.5.Release" >}}
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