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The Grafana Alloy command-line interface

The alloy binary exposes a command-line interface with subcommands to perform various operations.

The most common subcommand is run which accepts a configuration file and starts Alloy.

Available commands:

• convert: Convert an Alloy configuration file.
• fmt: Format an Alloy configuration file.
• run: Start Alloy with the Default Engine, given an Alloy syntax configuration file.
• otel: Start Alloy with the experimental OTel Engine, given an Open Telemetry Collector YAML configuration file.
• tools: Read the WAL and provide statistical information.
• completion: Generate shell completion for the alloy CLI.
• help: Print help for supported commands.