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.
Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
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 config file and
starts Grafana Agent Flow.
Available commands:
grafana-agent run
: Start Grafana Agent Flow, given a config file.grafana-agent fmt
: Format a Grafana Agent Flow config file.grafana-agent completion
: Generate shell completion for thegrafana-agent
CLI.grafana-agent help
: Print help for supported commands.