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title: "Create access token to onboard collector to Grafana Fleet Management | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to create an access policy token that you use to register a collector to Fleet Management"
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# Create access token to onboard collector to Grafana Fleet Management

If your Grafana Alloy collector isn’t shown on the Fleet Management page, you can manually register it.

In this milestone, you’ll generate an access token that registers your collector with Fleet Management. In the next milestone, you’ll add this token as the `password` in your Alloy configuration file.

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To create an access token, complete the following steps:

1. In your Grafana Cloud instance, navigate to **Connections** > **Collector Setup**.
2. Use the tool on this page to create a new token. Give the token a name and click the **Create token** button. You don’t need to complete the rest of the installation instructions if you’re not installing a new Alloy instance. The generated token comes with the predefined scope `set:alloy-data-write`, which includes scopes for reading remote configurations in Fleet Management and writing telemetry to Grafana Cloud databases. You can see the defined scopes by hovering over `set:alloy-data-write`:
   
   [](/media/docs/fleet-management/screenshot-fleet-management-access-token-scopes.png)
3. Copy the token and save it in a secure password file. You’ll need the token for the next step, but you won’t be able to view it again once you leave the page.

For more information on creating access policies, refer to [Grafana Cloud access policies](/docs/grafana-cloud/account-management/authentication-and-permissions/access-policies/).

> Note
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> If you create a policy using a different workflow or if you’re modifying an existing access policy, make sure to add the `set:alloy-data-write` scope.

In the next milestone, you’ll use the token you just created to register the collector with Fleet Management.