Grafana Alloy - Unified host and docker monitoring

When I set out to revamp the monitoring of my infrastructure, and switch to Grafana Alloy for both the host systems and Docker containers running on them - I found myself frustrated by the lack of good tutorials for my use case. Most guides I found that resembled my use case, either focused on host monitoring or Docker monitoring, but not in a unified, easy-to-deploy setup. After quite some…