I don't have ROOT permissions, can I still use Alloy to collect Java process?

[wenwenGeek]

pyroscope version : pyroscope_1.7.1_linux_amd64.tar.gz
alloy version : 1.3.1

Hello, I want to use pyroscope.java to collect my Java process, but I don't have ROOT permissions, and Alloy requires ROOT to run Alloy, how can I solve this problem?

[korniltsev]

you can use pyroscope-java sdk https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope-java

[luweglarz]

Hey!

Is there any plan to be able to run the java component without root? only using capabilities

[korniltsev]

you can try these caps, but I am not sure grafana/alloy#1616 (comment)

[luweglarz]

I think these caps allow us to avoid running Alloy as privileged but we still need to run it as root as it is enforced by the pyroscope.java component, I guess there is no workaround since we need to read /proc for the process discovery ?

[korniltsev]

yes