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title: "Beyla requirements and security | Grafana Beyla documentation"
description: "Check the host requirements for Grafana Beyla and learn which Linux capabilities and permissions it needs to run."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Beyla requirements and security

Before you set up Beyla, check that your hosts meet the requirements, and decide which privileges to grant Beyla.

- [Requirements](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/requirements-and-security/requirements/)  
  Check the Linux kernel, Go version, and Linux capability requirements for Grafana Beyla, and learn what eBPF-based auto-instrumentation can and can't capture.
- [Security](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/requirements-and-security/security/)  
  The Linux capabilities that Grafana Beyla needs for each feature, what each capability does, and how Beyla checks them at startup.