Getting started with Alloy

Grafana Alloy
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I have watched yesterday one of the mimir webinars where Alloy was configured to ingest metrics/logs from macos to grafana cloud. I have followed it up and after copying and pasting the configuration of alloy from the integration menu and restarting the alloy service I am getting the following:

/opt/homebrew/opt  stable ················································································································································································································································································································································ INT х  12:28:17 AM 
╰─ brew services start alloy
Error: Formula `alloy` has not implemented #plist, #service or installed a locatable service file
 brew services info alloy
alloy (homebrew.mxcl.alloy)
Running: ✘
Loaded: ✘
Schedulable: ✘
╭─ /opt/homebrew/opt  stable ···················································································································································································································································································································································· ✔  12:28:49 AM 
╰─ brew services restart alloy
Error: Formula `alloy` has not implemented #plist, #service or installed a locatable service file
╭─ /opt/homebrew/opt  stable ·················································································································································································································································································································································· 1 х  12:29:07 AM 
╰─ brew services stop  alloy
Warning: Service `alloy` is not started.

Any way I can fix this?

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did you follow this install?

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exactly

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which one is true in your case?

The default prefix for Homebrew on Intel is /usr/local. The default prefix for Homebrew on Apple Silicon is /opt/Homebrew.

To verify the default prefix for Homebrew on your computer, open a terminal window and type brew --prefix.

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on apple silicon where the brew is in /opt/homebrew

╰─ brew --prefix            
/opt/homebrew
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Hi! Met the same issue

% alloy --version                            
alloy, version v1.3.1 (branch: HEAD, revision: unknown)
  build user:       grafana
  build date:       2024-08-23T15:24:50Z
  go version:       go1.22.7
  platform:         darwin/arm64
  tags:             builtinassets,noebpf
% brew services start alloy

Error: Formula `alloy` has not implemented #plist, #service or installed a locatable service file
% brew --prefix 
/opt/homebrew
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dont you need to install the alloy service first before starting it?

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Thank you for the quick response! I did exactly these commands:

brew tap grafana/grafana
brew install grafana/grafana/alloy
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what do you see when you do
brew services list

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% brew services list
Name Status User File
alloy none

For more details, it used to work for lower alloy version, but after update/reinstall didn’t

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i think I have seen this before. just remove alloy totally then reinstall from scratch and see what happens.

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That is what I have done. Cleaned up brew and installed everything from scratch and on the second try it worked with no issue.

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