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Install Grafana Alloy as a standalone binary
Alloy is distributed as a standalone binary for the following operating systems and architectures:
- Linux: AMD64, ARM64
- Windows: AMD64
- macOS: AMD64 (Intel), ARM64 (Apple Silicon)
- FreeBSD: AMD64
Download Alloy
To download Alloy as a standalone binary, perform the following steps.
Navigate to the current Alloy release page.
Scroll down to the Assets section.
Download the
alloy
zip file that matches your operating system and machine’s architecture.Extract the package contents into a directory.
If you are installing Alloy on Linux, macOS, or FreeBSD, run the following command in a terminal:
shellchmod +x <BINARY_PATH>
Replace the following:
<BINARY_PATH>
: The path to the extracted binary.
BoringCrypto binaries
Note
BoringCrypto support is in Public preview and is only available for Linux with the AMD64 or ARM64 architecture.
BoringCrypto binaries are published for Linux on AMD64 and ARM64 platforms. To
retrieve them, follow the steps above but search the alloy-boringcrypto
ZIP
file that matches your Linux architecture.
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