diff --git a/alloy/config.alloy b/alloy/config.alloy
index 9ac2aae7..8d4756d5 100644
--- a/alloy/config.alloy
+++ b/alloy/config.alloy
@@ -11,6 +11,17 @@ discovery.docker "docker_containers" {
 discovery.relabel "docker_logs" {
   targets = discovery.docker.docker_containers.targets
 
+  // discovery.docker sees every container on the host, not just this
+  // project's - keep only our own so multiple Eth Docker installs on one
+  // host don't ship each other's logs. Falls back to matching every
+  // container on the host if resolving COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME ever fails,
+  // rather than matching none.
+  rule {
+    source_labels = ["__meta_docker_container_label_com_docker_compose_project"]
+    regex         = coalesce(sys.env("COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME"), ".*")
+    action        = "keep"
+  }
+
  rule {
     source_labels = ["__meta_docker_container_label_logs_collect"]
     regex         = "true"
@@ -37,6 +48,17 @@ loki.source.docker "docker_logs" {
 discovery.relabel "docker_metrics" {
   targets = discovery.docker.docker_containers.targets
 
+  // discovery.docker sees every container on the host, not just this
+  // project's - keep only our own so multiple Eth Docker installs on one
+  // host don't scrape/ship each other's metrics. Falls back to matching
+  // every container on the host if resolving COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME ever
+  // fails, rather than matching none.
+  rule {
+    source_labels = ["__meta_docker_container_label_com_docker_compose_project"]
+    regex         = coalesce(sys.env("COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME"), ".*")
+    action        = "keep"
+  }
+
   rule {
     source_labels = ["__meta_docker_container_label_metrics_scrape"]
     regex         = "true"
diff --git a/ethd b/ethd
index c6f724ab..61288670 100755
--- a/ethd
+++ b/ethd
@@ -2658,6 +2658,9 @@ reset to defaults."
     echo "Please make sure to run compatible client versions."
   fi
 
+  __pin_compose_project_name
+  __write_eth_docker_version_metric
+
   if [[ ! "$OSTYPE" = "darwin"* ]]; then
 # Release lock and remove lock file
     exec 200<&-
@@ -4281,13 +4284,74 @@ __adjust_grandine_permissions() {
 }
 
 
+# Pins COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME in .env to whatever Compose already resolves it
+# to for this install, if it isn't already set there. This doesn't change
+# which project Compose uses - the value is read back from Compose's own
+# resolution (docker compose config), never computed independently - it just
+# makes that name available for interpolation into the alloy container's
+# environment (see grafana.yml), so config.alloy can scope Docker service
+# discovery to this instance's own containers. Without this, Alloy's
+# discovery.docker sees every container on the host's Docker socket, so
+# running multiple Eth Docker installs on one host causes each instance's
+# Alloy to also scrape/ship the others' metrics and logs.
+__pin_compose_project_name() {
+  local existing
+  local resolved
+
+  __get_value_from_env "COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME" "${__env_file}" "existing"
+  if [[ -n "${existing}" ]]; then
+    return 0
+  fi
+
+  resolved=$(__docompose config 2>/dev/null | awk -F': ' '/^name:/{print $2; exit}') || resolved=""
+  if [[ -z "${resolved}" ]]; then
+    return 0
+  fi
+
+  __update_value_in_env "COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME" "${resolved}" "${__env_file}"
+}
+
+
+# Writes the currently checked-out Eth Docker version as a node-exporter
+# textfile-collector metric (see grafana.yml), so it can be tracked the same
+# way the EL/CL client versions already are. "tag" comes from README.md's
+# "This is Eth Docker vX.Y.Z" line (the same source `version` reads). A
+# release commit bumps that line straight to "vX.Y.Z-dev" for the next
+# version, so this stays accurate on main between releases. Writes into
+# the same host directory node-exporter's textfile collector is already
+# mounted from (NODE_EXPORTER_COLLECTOR_MOUNT_PATH, defaulting to
+# ./.eth/node-exporter-text) - that mount is read-only inside the
+# container, so the file has to land there from the host side.
+__write_eth_docker_version_metric() {
+  local tag
+  local commit
+  local textfile_dir
+
+  tag=$(grep -m1 "^This is Eth Docker v" README.md 2>/dev/null | sed -E 's/^This is Eth Docker //') || tag=""
+  commit=$(${__as_owner} git rev-parse --short HEAD 2>/dev/null) || commit=""
+
+  __get_value_from_env "NODE_EXPORTER_COLLECTOR_MOUNT_PATH" "${__env_file}" "textfile_dir"
+  textfile_dir="${textfile_dir:-./.eth/node-exporter-text}"
+
+  ${__as_owner} mkdir -p "${textfile_dir}"
+  {
+    echo "# HELP eth_docker_version_info Currently checked out Eth Docker version"
+    echo "# TYPE eth_docker_version_info gauge"
+    echo "eth_docker_version_info{tag=\"${tag}\",commit=\"${commit}\"} 1"
+  } | ${__as_owner} tee "${textfile_dir}/eth-docker-version.prom.tmp" >/dev/null
+  ${__as_owner} mv "${textfile_dir}/eth-docker-version.prom.tmp" "${textfile_dir}/eth-docker-version.prom"
+}
+
+
 upgrade() {
   update
 }
 
 
 start() {
+  __pin_compose_project_name
   __adjust_grandine_permissions
+  __write_eth_docker_version_metric
   __docompose up -d --remove-orphans "$@"
 }
 
diff --git a/grafana-cloud.yml b/grafana-cloud.yml
index 71f0f680..34ba4849 100644
--- a/grafana-cloud.yml
+++ b/grafana-cloud.yml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ services:
       - /sys:/host/sys:ro,rslave
       - /etc/hostname:/etc/nodename:ro
       - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
-      - ${NODE_EXPORTER_COLLECTOR_MOUNT_PATH:-/tmp/dummy-nodeexp-text}:/tmp/text-collector:ro
+      - ${NODE_EXPORTER_COLLECTOR_MOUNT_PATH:-./.eth/node-exporter-text}:/tmp/text-collector:ro
     <<: *logging
     labels:
       - metrics.scrape=true
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ services:
   alloy:
     image: grafana/alloy:latest
     restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      - COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}
     volumes:
       - alloy-data:/var/lib/alloy
       - ./alloy:/etc/alloy
diff --git a/grafana-rootless.yml b/grafana-rootless.yml
index 86ed5911..d0d9410f 100644
--- a/grafana-rootless.yml
+++ b/grafana-rootless.yml
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ services:
   alloy:
     image: grafana/alloy:latest
     restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      - COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}
     volumes:
       - alloy-data:/var/lib/alloy
       - ./alloy:/etc/alloy
diff --git a/grafana.yml b/grafana.yml
index 39d9ba1d..e2377dd4 100644
--- a/grafana.yml
+++ b/grafana.yml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ services:
       - /sys:/host/sys:ro,rslave
       - /etc/hostname:/etc/nodename:ro
       - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
-      - ${NODE_EXPORTER_COLLECTOR_MOUNT_PATH:-/tmp/dummy-nodeexp-text}:/tmp/text-collector:ro
+      - ${NODE_EXPORTER_COLLECTOR_MOUNT_PATH:-./.eth/node-exporter-text}:/tmp/text-collector:ro
     command:
       - '--path.rootfs=/rootfs'
       - '--path.sysfs=/host/sys'
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ services:
   alloy:
     image: grafana/alloy:latest
     restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      - COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}
     volumes:
       - alloy-data:/var/lib/alloy
       - ./alloy:/etc/alloy