[DOC] Update metrics for Alloy troubleshooting doc

[knylander-grafana]

What this PR does:

Adds information about how to view metrics from Alloy and how to check them in Grafana Cloud using Explore

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Fixes https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/troubleshoot/controller_metrics/

Checklist

• Tests updated
• Documentation added
• CHANGELOG.md updated - the order of entries should be [CHANGE], [FEATURE], [ENHANCEMENT], [BUGFIX]

[github-actions]

This PR must be merged before a backport PR will be created.

[github-actions]

This PR must be merged before a backport PR will be created.

[javiermolinar]

This is a bit misleading, this endpoint is local and it states Grafana Cloud

[yvrhdn]

This is referring to the metrics emitted by Alloy itself, /metrics is its prometheus scrape endpoint. These should also end up in Grafana Cloud, but in case remote write isn't working yet this is a quick and easy way to check the metrics locally.

I think the bit that might be confusing is If you are using Grafana Alloy since this page is about Alloy already.

[knylander-grafana]

Good points. I"ll write a suggestion to clarifiy.

[yvrhdn]

With the suggestion this looks good to me 🙂

[github-actions]

The backport to release-v2.6 failed:

The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 1

To backport manually, run these commands in your terminal:

# Fetch latest updates from GitHub
git fetch
# Create a new branch
git switch --create backport-4137-to-release-v2.6 origin/release-v2.6
# Cherry-pick the merged commit of this pull request and resolve the conflicts
git cherry-pick -x 85cc4aaeab8e4fd61d3786466b99edc397cc5c93

When the conflicts are resolved, stage and commit the changes:

git add . && git cherry-pick --continue

If you have the GitHub CLI installed:

# Push the branch to GitHub:
git push --set-upstream origin backport-4137-to-release-v2.6
# Create the PR body template
PR_BODY=$(gh pr view 4137 --json body --template 'Backport 85cc4aaeab8e4fd61d3786466b99edc397cc5c93 from #4137{{ "\n\n---\n\n" }}{{ index . "body" }}')
# Create the PR on GitHub
echo "${PR_BODY}" | gh pr create --title '[release-v2.6] [DOC] Update metrics for Alloy troubleshooting doc' --body-file - --label 'type/docs' --label 'backport' --base release-v2.6 --milestone release-v2.6 --web

Or, if you don't have the GitHub CLI installed (we recommend you install it!):

# Push the branch to GitHub:
git push --set-upstream origin backport-4137-to-release-v2.6

# Create a pull request where the `base` branch is `release-v2.6` and the `compare`/`head` branch is `backport-4137-to-release-v2.6`.

# Remove the local backport branch
git switch main
git branch -D backport-4137-to-release-v2.6