Embeds node_exporter inside Alloy alongside Loki shipping; pushes
metrics via remote_write to observe Prom with job=node_lxc_canary
to run side-by-side with the existing node_exporter scrape until
cutover. See homelab-docs/docs/audit/alloy-consolidation-2026-05-21.md.
Meridian + LiteLLM both run as systemd services on this LXC (no docker)
so the Docker-container Alloy pattern from other repos doesn't apply.
Apt-install grafana/alloy via apt.grafana.com, journald-only scrape,
ships to Loki on observe.lan.balders.ca.
Side benefit: Meridian.service + LiteLLM.service logs (including the
gpt-* alias shadowing requests from paperless-ai) now searchable in
Loki, not just journalctl on the LXC.
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