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title: "Install Grafana Alloy | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn how to install Grafana Alloy"
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# Install Grafana Alloy

You can install Alloy on Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, macOS, or Windows.

Alloy supports the following architectures:

- **Linux**: AMD64, ARM64
- **Windows**: AMD64
- **macOS**: AMD64 on Intel, ARM64 on Apple Silicon
- **FreeBSD**: AMD64

> Note
> 
> Installing Alloy on other operating systems is possible, but isn’t recommended or supported.

- [Install Grafana Alloy on Linux](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/linux/)
- [Install Grafana Alloy on macOS](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/macos/)
- [Install Grafana Alloy on Windows](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/windows/)
- [Run Grafana Alloy in a Docker container](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/docker/)
- [Deploy Grafana Alloy on Kubernetes](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/kubernetes/)
- [Install Grafana Alloy as a standalone binary](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/binary/)
- [Install Grafana Alloy with Ansible](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/ansible/)
- [Install Grafana Alloy with Chef](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/chef/)
- [Deploy Grafana Alloy on OpenShift](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/openshift/)
- [Run Grafana Alloy in a Podman container](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/podman/)
- [Install Grafana Alloy with Puppet](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/puppet/)

## Data collection

By default, Alloy sends anonymous usage information to Grafana Labs. Refer to [data collection](/docs/alloy/data-collection) for more information about what data Grafana collects and how you can opt-out.