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Instrument and send data

Grafana Alloy

Set up

Install

Grafana Cloud

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.

Data collection

By default, Alloy sends anonymous usage information to Grafana Labs. Refer to data collection for more information about what data Grafana collects and how you can opt-out.