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Documentation Grafana Alloy Set up Run macOS

Run Grafana Alloy on macOS

Alloy is installed as a launchd service on macOS.

Start Alloy

To start Alloy, run the following command in a terminal window:

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brew services start alloy

Alloy automatically runs when the system starts.

(Optional) To verify that the service is running, run the following command in a terminal window:

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brew services info alloy

Restart Alloy

To restart Alloy, run the following command in a terminal window:

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brew services restart alloy

Stop Alloy

To stop Alloy, run the following command in a terminal window:

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brew services stop  alloy

View Alloy logs

By default, logs are written to $(brew --prefix)/var/log/alloy.log and $(brew --prefix)/var/log/alloy.err.log.

If you followed Configure the Alloy service and changed the path where logs are written, refer to your current copy of the Alloy formula to locate your log files.

Next steps

• Configure Alloy