What are the system requirements?

Railway handles all the infrastructure requirements. You only need a web browser to deploy and manage your application.

Is this template free to use?

Yes, this template is free to use within your existing Railway account.

Can I customize this template?

Yes, you can fully customize this template. After deployment, you will have full control of what you've deployed in your Railway project.

How do I get support for this template?

You can get support through our community forum: grafana-loki-and-prometheus-with-otel-c-6a54ecc6, or join our Discord community for more assistance.

Deploy and Host Grafana, Loki and Prometheus with OTel Collector on Railway

A complete observability stack combining OpenTelemetry Collector, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo. This unified solution enables comprehensive application monitoring across metrics, logs, and distributed traces. The OTel Collector acts as a central telemetry hub, processing and routing data to specialized backends, all visualized through Grafana dashboards.

About Hosting Grafana, Loki and Prometheus with OTEL Collector

Deploying this stack involves configuring four interconnected services: the OpenTelemetry Collector receives telemetry data via OTLP protocols (HTTP/gRPC), Prometheus stores metrics via remote write, Loki aggregates logs, and Tempo manages distributed traces. Grafana serves as the visualization layer with pre-configured datasources. Services communicate internally via private networking, with only Grafana exposed publicly. Each component runs containerized with dedicated configuration files. The architecture assumes application-level OpenTelemetry instrumentation sends data to the collector, which then batches and routes it to appropriate backends for storage and analysis.

Common Use Cases

Full-stack application observability with unified logs, metrics, and traces
Microservices monitoring with distributed tracing across service boundaries
Performance debugging and troubleshooting with correlated telemetry data
Infrastructure monitoring and alerting via Prometheus metrics
Centralized log aggregation for multi-service applications

Dependencies for Grafana, Loki and Prometheus with OTEL Collector Hosting

All dependencies are included in this template. The only thing you need to spin up is the service that you want to monitor and point it to the OTel Collector!

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Ready-to-use OTel Collector points to the services spinned up in this template.

Your application only needs to send data to the OTLP Endpoints:

This is a base otel collector - so depending on the config you want, you can go to https://github.com/biancarosa/railway-grafana-stack and choose "Use this template" to create your own copy. Then you can change the repository on your railway deployment to point to your repo instead, which will allow you to fine-tune your OTel Collector configuration.

Why Deploy Grafana, Loki and Prometheus with OTEL Collector on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Grafana, Loki and Prometheus with OTEL Collector on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.