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title: "Run Grafana Agent Flow on Linux | Grafana Agent documentation"
description: "Learn how to run Grafana Agent Flow on Linux"
---

# Run Grafana Agent Flow on Linux

Grafana Agent Flow is [installed](/docs/agent/v0.43/flow/get-started/install/linux/) as a [systemd](https://systemd.io/) service on Linux.

## Start Grafana Agent Flow

To start Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:

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```shell
sudo systemctl start grafana-agent-flow
```

(Optional) To verify that the service is running, run the following command in a terminal window:

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```shell
sudo systemctl status grafana-agent-flow
```

## Configure 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:

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```shell
sudo systemctl enable grafana-agent-flow.service
```

## Restart Grafana Agent Flow

To restart Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:

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```shell
sudo systemctl restart grafana-agent-flow
```

## Stop Grafana Agent Flow

To stop Grafana Agent Flow, run the following command in a terminal window:

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```shell
sudo systemctl stop grafana-agent-flow
```

## View Grafana Agent Flow logs on Linux

To view Grafana Agent Flow log files, run the following command in a terminal window:

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```shell
sudo journalctl -u grafana-agent-flow
```

## Next steps

- [Configure Grafana Agent Flow](/docs/agent/v0.43/flow/tasks/configure/configure-linux/)