Install Linux Agent

You can install the Agent easily by downloading and running our shell script. 

1. Get or create a Write Log API Key from your account. Click the User Menu -> "API Keys" -> Scroll to the "Log Access Keys" and locate a key with "Write" Access

2. Download Latest Agent

curl -sO https://www.scalyr.com/install-agent.sh

3. Run install script with the following parameters

sudo bash ./install-agent.sh \
     --set-api-key "API-KEY-HERE" # optional
     --set-scalyr-server "https://upload.eu.scalyr.com" # if account is on EU cluster, otherwise, US is used by default

4. Start Agent

sudo scalyr-agent-2 start

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