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Monitor a Windows system
15 min
Milestone 1
The case for observability
2 min
Milestone 2
Select Windows integration
1 min
Milestone 3
Install Alloy
2 min
Milestone 4
Configure Alloy
1 min
Milestone 5
Test connection
1 min
Milestone 6
Install dashboards and alerts
1 min
Milestone 7
About pre-built dashboards
2 min
Milestone 8
About pre-built alerts
3 min
Milestone 9
Destination reached!
1 min

Restart Grafana Alloy and test the connection

By now, you’ve installed and configured Grafana Alloy. Congratulations! In this step, you’ll restart Grafana Alloy and test that Grafana Cloud is collecting data from your Windows system.

To restart Alloy and test the connection, complete the following steps:

  1. On your Windows system, open Command Prompt as Administrator.

  2. Restart the Alloy service:

    cmd 
    sc stop "Alloy" 
sc start "Alloy" 
sc query "Alloy" | find "STATE"

    Tip

    You will see output indicating the service is stopping and starting.

  3. In Grafana Cloud, click Test connection.

    It might take up to a few minutes for the system to verify the connection.

    You’ll know the connection is working when you see Integration is collecting data and sending it to Grafana Cloud. In the next step, you’ll install pre-configured dashboards and alerts.

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Configure Alloy
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Install dashboards and alerts
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