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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.
Import the GPG key and add the Grafana package repository.
debian-ubuntusudo 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-fedorawget -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 sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo
suse-opensusewget -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-ubuntusudo apt-get update
rhel-fedorayum update
suse-opensusesudo zypper update
Install Alloy.
debian-ubuntusudo apt-get install alloy
rhel-fedorasudo dnf install alloy
suse-opensusesudo zypper install alloy
Uninstall
To uninstall Alloy on Linux, run the following commands in a terminal window.
Stop the systemd service for Alloy.
All-distrossudo systemctl stop alloy
Uninstall Alloy.
debian-ubuntusudo apt-get remove alloy
rhel-fedorasudo dnf remove alloy
suse-opensusesudo zypper remove alloy
Optional: Remove the Grafana repository.
debian-ubuntusudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list
rhel-fedorasudo rm -i /etc/yum.repos.d/rpm.grafana.repo
suse-opensusesudo zypper removerepo grafana
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