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.
Run Grafana Agent Flow on macOS
Grafana Agent Flow is installed as a launchd service on macOS.
Start Grafana Agent Flow
To start Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:
brew services start grafana-agent-flow
Grafana Agent Flow automatically runs when the system starts.
(Optional) To verify that the service is running, run the following command in a terminal window:
brew services info grafana-agent-flow
Restart Grafana Agent Flow
To restart Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:
brew services restart grafana-agent-flow
Stop Grafana Agent Flow
To stop Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:
brew services stop grafana-agent-flow
View Grafana Agent Flow logs on macOS
By default, logs are written to $(brew --prefix)/var/log/grafana-agent-flow.log
and
$(brew --prefix)/var/log/grafana-agent-flow.err.log
.
If you followed Configure the Grafana Agent Flow service and changed the path where logs are written, refer to your current copy of the Grafana Agent Flow formula to locate your log files.