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title: "Run Grafana Alloy on Windows | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn how to run Grafana Alloy on Windows"
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# Run Grafana Alloy on Windows

Alloy is [installed](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/set-up/install/windows) as a Windows Service. The service is configured to automatically run on startup.

To verify that Alloy is running as a Windows Service:

1. Open the Windows Services manager:
   
   1. Right click on the Start Menu and select **Run**.
   2. Type: `services.msc` and click **OK**.
2. Scroll down to find the **Alloy** service and verify that the **Status** is **Running**.

## View Alloy logs

When running on Windows, Alloy writes its logs to Windows Event Logs with an event source name of **Alloy**.

To view the logs, perform the following steps:

1. Open the Event Viewer:
   
   1. Right click on the Start Menu and select **Run**.
   2. Type `eventvwr` and click **OK**.
2. In the Event Viewer, click on **Windows Logs > Application**.
3. Search for events with the source **Grafana Alloy**.

## Next steps

- [Configure Alloy](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/alloy/configure/windows)