Configure Grafana Alloy on Windows

To configure Alloy on Windows, perform the following steps:

Edit the default configuration file at %PROGRAMFILES%\GrafanaLabs\Alloy\config.alloy.
Restart the Alloy service:
1. Open the Windows Services manager (services.msc):
  1. Right click on the Start Menu and select Run.
  2. Type services.msc and click OK.
2. Right click on the service called Alloy.
3. Click on All Tasks > Restart.

Change command-line arguments

By default, the Alloy service will launch and pass the following arguments to the Alloy binary:

run
%PROGRAMFILES%\GrafanaLabs\Alloy\config.alloy
--storage.path=%PROGRAMDATA%\GrafanaLabs\Alloy\data

To change the set of command-line arguments passed to the Alloy binary, perform the following steps:

Open the Registry Editor:
1. Right click on the Start Menu and select Run.
2. Type regedit and click OK.
Navigate to the key at the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GrafanaLabs\Alloy.
Double-click on the value called Arguments*.
In the dialog box, enter the new set of arguments to pass to the Alloy binary.
Restart the Alloy service:
1. Open the Windows Services manager (services.msc):
  1. Right click on the Start Menu and select Run.
  2. Type services.msc and click OK.
2. Right click on the service called Alloy.
3. Click on All Tasks > Restart.

Expose the UI to other machines

By default, Alloy listens on the local network for its HTTP server. This prevents other machines on the network from being able to access the UI for debugging.

To expose the UI to other machines, complete the following steps:

Follow Change command-line arguments to edit command line flags passed to Alloy, including the following customizations:
1. Add the following command line argument:
  shell
```
--server.http.listen-addr=LISTEN_ADDR:12345
```
  Replace LISTEN_ADDR with an address which other machines on the network have access to, like the network IP address of the machine Alloy is running on.
  To listen on all interfaces, replace LISTEN_ADDR with 0.0.0.0.