Install Grafana Alloy on Linux
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Install Grafana Alloy on Linux

You can install Alloy as a systemd service on Linux.

Before you begin

Some Debian-based cloud Virtual Machines don’t have GPG installed by default. To install GPG in your Linux Virtual Machine, run the following command in a terminal window.

shell
sudo apt install gpg

Install

To install Alloy on Linux, run the following commands in a terminal window.

  1. Import the GPG key and add the Grafana package repository.

    Debian-Ubuntu
    sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings/
    wget -q -O - https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg > /dev/null
    echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg] https://apt.grafana.com stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list
    RHEL-Fedora
    SUSE-openSUSE
  2. Update the repositories.

    Debian-Ubuntu
    sudo apt-get update
    RHEL-Fedora
    SUSE-openSUSE
  3. Install Alloy.

    Debian-Ubuntu
    sudo apt-get install alloy
    RHEL-Fedora
    SUSE-openSUSE

Uninstall

To uninstall Alloy on Linux, run the following commands in a terminal window.

  1. Stop the systemd service for Alloy.

    All-distros
    sudo systemctl stop alloy
  2. Uninstall Alloy.

    Debian-Ubuntu
    sudo apt-get remove alloy
    RHEL-Fedora
    SUSE-openSUSE
  3. Optional: Remove the Grafana repository.

    Debian-Ubuntu
    sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list
    RHEL-Fedora
    SUSE-openSUSE

Next steps