Run Grafana Alloy on Linux

Alloy is installed as a systemd service on Linux.

Start Alloy

To start Alloy, run the following command in a terminal window:

sudo systemctl start alloy

Optional: To verify that the service is running, run the following command in a terminal window:

sudo systemctl status alloy

To automatically run Alloy when the system starts, run the following command in a terminal window:

sudo systemctl enable alloy.service

To restart Alloy, run the following command in a terminal window:

sudo systemctl restart alloy

To stop Alloy, run the following command in a terminal window:

sudo systemctl stop alloy

To view Alloy log files, run the following command in a terminal window:

sudo journalctl -u alloy