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Grafana Agent has reached End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. Agent is no longer receiving vendor support and will no longer receive security or bug fixes. Current users of Agent Static mode, Agent Flow mode, and Agent Operator should proceed with migrating to Grafana Alloy. If you have already migrated to Alloy, no further action is required. Read more about why we recommend migrating to Grafana Alloy.

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Command-line interface

When in Flow mode, the grafana-agent binary exposes a command-line interface with subcommands to perform various operations.

The most common subcommand is run which accepts a config file and starts Grafana Agent Flow.

Available commands:

  • grafana-agent run: Start Grafana Agent Flow, given a config file.
  • grafana-agent fmt: Format a Grafana Agent Flow config file.
  • grafana-agent completion: Generate shell completion for the grafana-agent CLI.
  • grafana-agent help: Print help for supported commands.