Grafana Agent Flow mode Install Docker

Install Grafana Agent Flow on Docker

Grafana Agent Flow is available as Docker images on the following platforms:

• Linux containers for AMD64 and ARM64 machines.
• Windows containers for AMD64 machines.

Before you begin

• Ensure that Docker is installed and running on your machine.

• Ensure that you have an existing Grafana Agent Flow configuration file to use saved on your host system, such as:

  logging {
    level  = "info"
    format = "logfmt"
  }
  

Run a Linux Docker container

To run Grafana Agent Flow as a Linux Docker container, perform the following steps:

1. Run the following command in a terminal:

   docker run \
     -e AGENT_MODE=flow \
     -v CONFIG_FILE_PATH:/etc/agent/config.river \
     -p 12345:12345 \
     grafana/agent:latest \
       run --server.http.listen-addr=0.0.0.0:12345 /etc/agent/config.river
   

   Replace CONFIG_FILE_PATH with the path of the configuration file to use on your host system.

The last line may be modified to change the arguments passed to the Grafana Agent Flow binary. To see the set of options available to the run command, refer to the documentation for run.

NOTE: Make sure to pass --server.http.listen-addr=0.0.0.0:12345 as an argument like in the example above, otherwise the debugging UI won’t be available outside of the Docker container.

Run a Windows Docker container

To run Grafana Agent Flow as a Windows Docker container, perform the following steps:

1. Run the following command in a terminal:

   docker run \
     -e AGENT_MODE=flow \
     -v CONFIG_FILE_PATH:C:\etc\grafana-agent\config.river \
     -p 12345:12345 \
     grafana/agent:latest-windows \
       run --server.http.listen-addr=0.0.0.0:12345 C:\etc\grafana-agent\config.river
   

   Replace CONFIG_FILE_PATH with the path of the configuration file to use on your host system.

The last line may be modified to change the arguments passed to the Grafana Agent Flow binary. To see the set of options available to the run command, refer to the documentation for run.

NOTE: Make sure to pass --server.http.listen-addr=0.0.0.0:12345 as an argument like in the example above, otherwise the debugging UI won’t be available outside of the Docker container.

Result

After following these steps, Grafana Agent Flow should be successfully running in Docker.

To validate that Grafana Agent Flow is running successfully, navigate to http://localhost:12345 to ensure that the Grafana Agent Flow UI loads without error.