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Documentation Grafana Agent Cookbook Dynamic Configuration Looping

01 Basics of Templating

The templating is based on the excellent gomplate library. Currently using a custom fork to allow loading gomplate as a library in addition to some new commands. This will NOT try to cover the full range of gomplate, would recommend reading the documentation for full knowledge.

docker run -v ${PWD}/:/etc/grafana grafana/agentctl:latest template-parse file:///etc/grafana/01_config.yml

Looping

agent-1.yml

YAML Copy

server:
  log_level: debug
metrics:
  wal_directory: /tmp/grafana-agent-normal
  global:
    scrape_interval: 60s
    remote_write:
      - url: https://prometheus-us-central1.grafana.net/api/prom/push
        basic_auth:
          username: xyz
          password: secretpassword
  configs:
    - name: default
  {{ range slice "apple" "banana" "pear" }}
    - name: {{ . }}
  {{ end }}

The templating engine uses directives that are wrapped in {{ command }}, in the above the dynamic configuration engine will loop over the three values, and those values can be accessed by {{ . }} which means current value.

Final

final.yml

The final.yml contains 4 prometheus configs

• default
• apple
• banana
• pear