Grafana Alloy drops logs at hourly rotation on Windows
Logs written at the start of each hour are missing after hourly file rotation under Grafana Alloy on Windows.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 18 August 2026 · last reported 25 August 2026
What's going wrong
Operators running Grafana Alloy as a Windows service report that log lines written at the start of each hour never reach their destination when files rotate hourly.
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