grafana-agent is already marked as broken due to requiring an EOL Go version that has been removed from nixpkgs as of yesterday and will become EOL within the release cycle of the upcoming 25.05 anyway.grafana-agent will be dropped from nixpkgs very soon:
NixOS:master ← flokli:grafana-agent-drop
opened 03:11PM - 02 Apr 25 UTC
As described in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/394017, grafana-agent does… not build with Go 1.23 anymore, and Go 1.22 has been removed.
grafana-agent has been deprecated by Grafana (in favour of Grafana Alloy), and will be EOL on 2025-11-01, which would be part of the upcoming 25.05 release.
Instead of leaving us with a broken package, drop it alltogether, and add release notes.
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If you depend on grafana-agent, consider migrating to grafana-alloy.https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/set-up/migrate/ , NixOS Search and nixpkgs/nixos/tests/alloy.nix at 88b2709b781be6235e99af08702d357c7ab58be3 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub for details and jumping-off points.
Note that grafana-alloy cannot be configured via JSON (yet), only via River, which is more or less Grafana’s take on HashiCorp’s HCL.
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