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.

sudo apt install gpg

Install

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

Import the GPG key and add the Grafana package repository.

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

wget -q -O gpg.key https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key
sudo rpm --import gpg.key
echo -e '[grafana]\nname=grafana\nbaseurl=https://rpm.grafana.com\nrepo_gpgcheck=1\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key\nsslverify=1\nsslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo

wget -q -O gpg.key https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key
sudo rpm --import gpg.key
sudo zypper addrepo https://rpm.grafana.com grafana

Update the repositories.
Debian-Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
RHEL-Fedora
yum update
SUSE-openSUSE
sudo zypper update
Install Alloy.
Debian-Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install alloy
RHEL-Fedora
sudo dnf install alloy
SUSE-openSUSE
sudo zypper install alloy

Uninstall

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

Stop the systemd service for Alloy.
All-distros
```
sudo systemctl stop alloy
```
Uninstall Alloy.
Debian-Ubuntu
sudo apt-get remove alloy
RHEL-Fedora
sudo dnf remove alloy
SUSE-openSUSE
sudo zypper remove alloy
Optional: Remove the Grafana repository.
Debian-Ubuntu
sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list
RHEL-Fedora
sudo rm -i /etc/yum.repos.d/rpm.grafana.repo
SUSE-openSUSE
sudo zypper removerepo grafana