Caution
Grafana Alloy is the new name for our distribution of the OTel collector. Grafana Agent has been deprecated and is in Long-Term Support (LTS) through October 31, 2025. Grafana Agent will reach an End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. Read more about why we recommend migrating to Grafana Alloy.
This is documentation for the next version of Agent. For the latest stable release, go to the latest version.
Run Grafana Agent Flow on Linux
Grafana Agent Flow is installed as a systemd service on Linux.
Start Grafana Agent Flow
To start Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl start grafana-agent-flow
(Optional) To verify that the service is running, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl status grafana-agent-flow
Configure Grafana Agent Flow to start at boot
To automatically run Grafana Agent Flow when the system starts, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl enable grafana-agent-flow.service
Restart Grafana Agent Flow
To restart Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl restart grafana-agent-flow
Stop Grafana Agent Flow
To stop Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl stop grafana-agent-flow
View Grafana Agent Flow logs on Linux
To view Grafana Agent Flow log files, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo journalctl -u grafana-agent-flow