chore(main): Release 1.17.0

Author: grafana-alloybot[bot]

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "1.16.0"
+  ".": "1.17.0"
 }

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.17.0](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/compare/v1.16.0...v1.17.0) (2026-04-24)
+
+
+### Features 🌟
+
+* **database_observability:** Add wait_event_v2 op with pre-classified wait_event_type ([#6105](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/issues/6105)) ([f7a1ebd](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/commit/f7a1ebd769e04924adad69f2e082ce92c85b5977))
+* **database_observability:** Always extract traceparent in MySQL query_samples collector ([#6081](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/issues/6081)) ([bf2b436](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/commit/bf2b436f55fa9cf0eb7c2c2400c4c646b8a8ecb8))
+* Integration tests for aws firehose and cloudflare logpull ([#6089](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/issues/6089)) ([f55f780](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/commit/f55f78039189186e6e77d3bdb8cfd2fb3480fe41))
+* **loki.source.heroku:** Drop github.com/heroku/x package ([#6064](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/issues/6064)) ([3382721](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/commit/3382721d7a44647cfcd2e86ce1d82f8d282f7854))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes 🐛
+
+* **deb:** Restart Alloy only on upgrade in postinst script ([#6094](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/issues/6094)) ([8c15cb3](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/commit/8c15cb358b7d8e5ff159e633a5b5ae867e3c2e94))
+* **deps:** Update module go.opentelemetry.io/obi to v0.8.0 [SECURITY] ([#6091](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/issues/6091)) ([05c14af](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/commit/05c14af450000f11a367d5f62fd5e9334a49f160))
+* **documentation:** Fix documentation for loki.rules.kubernetes ([#6088](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/issues/6088)) ([61f2b8a](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/commit/61f2b8a09e7705714553662de4dfc7a33a8536bb))
+* Enforce Singleton For Running Alloy Extension Instances ([#5763](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/issues/5763)) ([83da6f0](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/commit/83da6f0cd3604a8b4306e5ddecd685db54d38361))
+
 ## [1.16.0](https://github.com/grafana/alloy/compare/v1.15.0...v1.16.0) (2026-04-22)
 
 

collector/VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.16.0 # x-release-please-version
+1.17.0 # x-release-please-version

collector/builder-config.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dist:
   module: github.com/grafana/alloy/otel_engine
   name: alloy
   description: Alloy OTel Collector distribution.
-  version: v1.16.0 # x-release-please-version
+  version: v1.17.0 # x-release-please-version
   output_path: .
 
 extensions:

docs/sources/_index.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Grafana Alloy
 description: Grafana Alloy is a vendor-neutral distribution of the OTel Collector
 weight: 350
 cascade:
-  ALLOY_RELEASE: v1.16.0 # x-release-please-version
+  ALLOY_RELEASE: v1.17.0 # x-release-please-version
   OTEL_VERSION: v0.147.0
   PROM_WIN_EXP_VERSION: v0.31.3
   SNMP_VERSION: v0.29.0

extension/alloyengine/go.mod

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ replace github.com/grafana/alloy => ../..
 replace github.com/grafana/alloy/syntax => ../../syntax
 
 require (
-	github.com/grafana/alloy v1.15.0 // x-release-please-version
+	github.com/grafana/alloy v1.17.0 // x-release-please-version
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.2
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.11.1
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component v1.53.0