Four layers as one strategy, what to eliminate first, and how to adopt without boiling the ocean

Run Grafana Alloy as a Nomad system job so agent config and secrets stay dynamic

Ship Grafana dashboards and alerts in the same Terraform apply as the service

Manage the Grafana LGTM stack as Nomad jobs so the platform that watches everything is itself repeatable

Bake the agent into the base image so every VM is observable at first boot