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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.
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Run Grafana Agent Flow on Linux
Grafana Agent Flow is installed as a systemd service on Linux.
Start Grafana Agent Flow
To start Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl start grafana-agent-flow(Optional) To verify that the service is running, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl status grafana-agent-flowConfigure Grafana Agent Flow to start at boot
To automatically run Grafana Agent Flow when the system starts, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl enable grafana-agent-flow.serviceRestart Grafana Agent Flow
To restart Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl restart grafana-agent-flowStop Grafana Agent Flow
To stop Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo systemctl stop grafana-agent-flowView Grafana Agent Flow logs on Linux
To view Grafana Agent Flow log files, run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo journalctl -u grafana-agent-flowNext steps
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