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page_title: Installing on Windows
page_description: Grafana Installation guide for Windows
page_keywords: grafana, installation, windows guide
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# Installing on Windows

## Download

Description | Download
------------ | -------------
Zip package for Windows | [grafana.2.0.2.windows-x64.zip](https://grafanarel.s3.amazonaws.com/winbuilds/dist/grafana-2.0.2.windows-x64.zip)

## Configure
The zip file contains a folder with the current grafana version. Extract this folder to anywhere you want Grafana to run from.
Go into the `conf` directory and copy `sample.ini` to `custom.ini`. You should edit `custom.ini`, never `defaults.ini`.

The default grafana port is `3000`, this port requires extra permissions on windows. Edit `custom.ini` and uncomment the `http_port`
config and change it to something like `8080` or similar. That port should not require extra windows privileges.

Start grafana by executing `grafana-server.exe`, preferbly from the command line. If you want to run Grafana as
windows service, download [NSSM](https://nssm.cc/). It is very easy add grafana as windows service using that tool.

Read more about the [configuration options](configuration.md).

## Building on Windows

The Grafana backend includes Sqlite3 which requires GCC to compile. So in order to compile Grafana on windows you need
to install GCC. We recommend [TDM-GCC](http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download).

Copy conf/sample.ini to a file named conf/custom.ini and change the web server port to something like 8080. The default
Grafana port(3000) requires special privileges on Windows.