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.
The Grafana Agent command-line interface
When in Flow mode, the grafana-agent
binary exposes a command-line interface with
subcommands to perform various operations.
The most common subcommand is run
which accepts a configuration file and
starts Grafana Agent Flow.
Available commands:
convert
: Convert a Grafana Agent configuration file.fmt
: Format a Grafana Agent Flow configuration file.run
: Start Grafana Agent Flow, given a configuration file.tools
: Read the WAL and provide statistical information.completion
: Generate shell completion for thegrafana-agent-flow
CLI.help
: Print help for supported commands.