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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.

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constants

The constants object exposes a list of constant values about the system Grafana Agent Flow is running on:

  • constants.hostname: The hostname of the machine Grafana Agent Flow is running on.
  • constants.os: The operating system Grafana Agent Flow is running on.
  • constants.arch: The architecture of the system Grafana Agent Flow is running on.

Examples

> constants.hostname
"my-hostname"

> constants.os
"linux"

> constants.arch
"amd64"