From a575d16ec07ff405f207e87a817b2c0dc7d55cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ahtlon <git@ahtlon.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:29:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Promtail is EOL Recomended migtration to grafana-alloy
 (https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/set-up/migrate/from-promtail/) or
 fluent-bit (https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/data-pipeline/outputs/loki) I
 chose alloy because of the compatability. This needs to be reworked to a
 native implementation later

---
 machines/modules/malobeo/metrics.nix | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/machines/modules/malobeo/metrics.nix b/machines/modules/malobeo/metrics.nix
index 9c74b10..4bed4a5 100644
--- a/machines/modules/malobeo/metrics.nix
+++ b/machines/modules/malobeo/metrics.nix
@@ -41,17 +41,22 @@ in
       };
     };
 
-    services.promtail = {
+    services.alloy = {
       enable = cfg.enablePromtail;
-      configFile = import ./promtail_config.nix { 
+      extraFlags = ["--config.format=promtail"]; #TODO please change this to native alloy config later
+      configPath = import ./promtail_config.nix { 
         lokiAddress = cfg.lokiHost;
         logNginx = cfg.logNginx;
         config = config;
         pkgs = pkgs;
       };
     };
-
-    users.users.promtail.extraGroups = [ "systemd-journal" ] ++ (lib.optionals cfg.logNginx [ "nginx" ]) ;
+    users.groups.promtail = {};
+    users.users.promtail = {
+      isNormalUser = true;
+      group = "promtail";
+      extraGroups = [ "systemd-journal" ] ++ (lib.optionals cfg.logNginx [ "nginx" ]) ;
+    };
 
   };
 }