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Run Grafana Alloy on Linux

Alloy is installed as a systemd service on Linux.

Start Alloy

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

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sudo systemctl start alloy

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

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sudo systemctl status alloy

Configure Alloy to start at boot

To automatically run Alloy when the system starts, run the following command in a terminal window:

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sudo systemctl enable alloy.service

Restart Alloy

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

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sudo systemctl restart alloy

Stop Alloy

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

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sudo systemctl stop alloy

View Alloy logs

To view Alloy log files, run the following command in a terminal window:

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sudo journalctl -u alloy

Next steps

• Configure Alloy