fixes

README.md

@@ -37,23 +37,27 @@ To install and run `alloy` on hosts
 
 ```zsh
 $ mkdir -p /opt/alloy
+$ mkdir -p /var/lib/alloy
+
 $ cd /tmp
-$ wget https://github.com/grafana/alloy/releases/download/v1.0.0/alloy-linux-amd64.zip
+$ wget https://github.com/grafana/alloy/releases/download/v1.1.1/alloy-linux-amd64.zip
 $ unzip alloy-linux-amd64.zip
 
 $ mv alloy-linux-amd64 /opt/alloy/agent
 
 $ groupadd -f alloy
 $ useradd -g alloy --no-create-home --shell /bin/false alloy
 
+$ chown -R alloy:alloy /opt/alloy
+$ chown -R alloy:alloy /var/lib/alloy
 ```
 
 Create `/opt/alloy/config.alloy` from `config.alloy` in this repo. Then run alloy as a systemd service.
 
 ```zsh
 $ echo "[Unit]
-Description=Node Exporter
-Documentation=https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/node-exporter/
+Description=Alloy
+Documentation=https://github.com/grafana/alloy
 Wants=network-online.target
 After=network-online.target
 
@@ -66,7 +70,7 @@ Environment="REMOTE_LOKI_WRITE_URL=http://X.X.X.X:3100/loki/api/v1/push"
 Environment="REMOTE_PROMETHEUS_WRITE_URL=http://X.X.X.X:9090/api/v1/write"
 Environment="REMOTE_PROMETHEUS_USERNAME=admin"
 Environment="REMOTE_PROMETHEUS_PASSWORD=password"
-ExecStart=/opt/alloy/agent run /opt/alloy/config.alloy
+ExecStart=/opt/alloy/agent run --storage.path=/var/lib/alloy /opt/alloy/config.alloy
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target" > /etc/systemd/system/alloy.service

config.alloy

@@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ logging {
 
 // Collect metrics from the local running Alloy instance and forward to
 // Prometheus.
-prometheus.exporter.self "home_rpi_alloy" {}
-prometheus.scrape "home_rpi_alloy" {
-  targets    = prometheus.exporter.self.home_rpi_alloy.targets
+prometheus.exporter.self "cougar_host" {}
+prometheus.scrape "cougar_host" {
+  targets    = prometheus.exporter.self.cougar_host.targets
 
   forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.remote_prometheus.receiver]
 }
 
 loki.source.file "badger_logs" {
   targets    = [
-    {__path__ = "/var/logs/badger.log", "color" = "pink", "service_name" = "badger", "component" = "backend"},
+    {__path__ = "/var/log/badger.log", "color" = "pink", "service_name" = "badger", "component" = "backend"},
   ]
   forward_to = [loki.write.remote_loki.receiver]
 }