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Run Grafana Agent in static mode in a Docker container

Grafana Agent is available as a Docker container image on the following platforms:

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

Before you begin

• Install Docker on your computer.
• Create and save a Grafana Agent YAML configuration file on your computer.

Run a Linux Docker container

To run a Grafana Agent Docker container on Linux, run the following command in a terminal window:

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docker run \
  -v WAL_DATA_DIRECTORY:/etc/agent/data \
  -v CONFIG_FILE_PATH:/etc/agent/agent.yaml \
  grafana/agent:v0.42.0

Replace CONFIG_FILE_PATH with the configuration file path on your Linux host system.

Run a Windows Docker container

To run a Grafana Agent Docker container on Windows, run the following command in a Windows command prompt:

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docker run ^
  -v WAL_DATA_DIRECTORY:C:\etc\grafana-agent\data ^
  -v CONFIG_FILE_PATH:C:\etc\grafana-agent ^
  grafana/agent:v0.42.0-windows

Replace the following:

• CONFIG_FILE_PATH: The configuration file path on your Windows host system.
• WAL_DATA_DIRECTORY: the directory used to store your metrics before sending them to Prometheus. Old WAL data is cleaned up every hour and is used for recovery if the process crashes.

Next steps

• Start Grafana Agent
• Configure Grafana Agent