---
title: "Set up Beyla | Grafana Beyla documentation"
description: "Learn how to set up and run Beyla."
---

> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Set up Beyla

There are different options to set up and run Beyla:

1. [With Docker to instrument a process running in a container](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/setup/docker/).
2. [As a Kubernetes DaemonSet with Helm for Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/setup/kubernetes-helm-appolly/)
3. [As a Kubernetes DaemonSet with the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/setup/kubernetes-helm-k8s-monitoring/)
4. [As a Kubernetes DaemonSet with Helm](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/setup/kubernetes-helm/)
5. [As a Kubernetes DaemonSet the Grafana Alloy Helm chart](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/setup/helm-alloy/)
6. [As a Kubernetes DaemonSet or as a sidecar container (manual process)](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/setup/kubernetes/)

For information on configuration options and data export modes, see the [Configure Beyla](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/configure/) documentation.

You can run Beyla as a standalone process. This approach is suitable for running with bare metal installations, in virtual machines, for local development, or advanced use cases. Consult the documentation in the [Git repository](https://github.com/grafana/beyla/blob/main/docs/sources/setup/standalone.md) to learn how to set up Beyla as a standalone process.

**Note**: If you will be using Beyla to generate traces, please make sure you’ve read our documentation section on configuring the [Routes Decorator](https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/configure/routes-decorator/). Since Beyla is auto-instrumenting your application without any special language level support, configuring the low cardinality routes decorator is very important for optimal results.