Caution
Grafana Alloy is the new name for our distribution of the OTel collector. Grafana Agent has been deprecated and is in Long-Term Support (LTS) through October 31, 2025. Grafana Agent will reach an End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. Read more about why we recommend migrating to Grafana Alloy.
This is documentation for the next version of Grafana Agent Documentation. For the latest stable release, go to the latest version.
export block
export is an optional configuration block used to specify an emitted value of a
custom component.
export blocks must be given a label which determine the name of the export.
The export block may only be specified inside the definition of
a declare block.
Note
In classic modules, the
exportblock is valid as a top-level block in a classic module. Classic modules are deprecated and scheduled to be removed in the release after v0.40.
Example
export "ARGUMENT_NAME" {
value = ARGUMENT_VALUE
}Arguments
The following arguments are supported:
| Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
value | any | Value to export. | yes |
The value argument determines what the value of the export is.
To expose an exported field of another component, set value to an expression that references that exported value.
Exported fields
The export block doesn’t export any fields.
Example
This example creates a custom component where the output of discovering Kubernetes pods and nodes are exposed to the user:
declare "pods_and_nodes" {
discovery.kubernetes "pods" {
role = "pod"
}
discovery.kubernetes "nodes" {
role = "nodes"
}
export "kubernetes_resources" {
value = concat(
discovery.kubernetes.pods.targets,
discovery.kubernetes.nodes.targets,
)
}
}


