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Alloy MongoDB exporter floods Splunk with log volume

Alloy's MongoDB exporter floods logs with per-second metric dumps, filling Splunk storage with several GB.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 4 August 2026 · last reported 6 August 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Users of Grafana Alloy's MongoDB exporter report that it writes many lines of per-second metric output into logs, even when the log level is set to error.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

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