Caution
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.
Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
Install Grafana Agent in flow mode on Windows
You can install Grafana Agent in flow mode on Windows as a standard graphical install, or as a silent install.
Standard graphical install
To do a standard graphical install of Grafana Agent on Windows, perform the following steps.
Navigate to the latest release on GitHub.
Scroll down to the Assets section.
Download the file called
grafana-agent-flow-installer.exe.zip
.Unzip the downloaded file.
Double-click on
grafana-agent-installer.exe
to install Grafana Agent.
Grafana Agent is installed into the default directory C:\Program Files\Grafana Agent Flow
.
Silent install
To do a silent install of Grafana Agent on Windows, perform the following steps.
Navigate to the latest release on GitHub.
Scroll down to the Assets section.
Download the file called
grafana-agent-flow-installer.exe.zip
.Unzip the downloaded file.
Run the following command in PowerShell or Command Prompt:
PATH_TO_INSTALLER /S
Replace
PATH_TO_INSTALLER
with the path where the unzipped installer executable is located.
Uninstall
You can uninstall Grafana Agent with Windows Remove Programs or C:\Program Files\Grafana Agent\uninstaller.exe
. Uninstalling Grafana Agent will stop the service and remove it from disk. This includes any configuration files in the installation directory.
Grafana Agent can also be silently uninstalled by running uninstall.exe /S
as Administrator.