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Documentation Grafana Agent Grafana Agent Flow Reference Standard library discovery_target_decode

discovery_target_decode

The discovery_target_decode function decodes a string into an array of targets matching the exports of discovery.* components.

The string must match the JSON format used by Prometheus’ HTTP and file service discovery:

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[
  {
    "targets": [ "<host:ip>", ... ],
    "labels": {
      "<label name>": "<label value>"
    }
  }
]

If the provided string doesn’t match the expected JSON format, discovery_target_decode fails to evaluate and marks the component containing the expression as unhealthy.

Elements specified by the targets key are converted into a flat list of targets. The base set of labels for each target is retrieved from the labels key, and the __address__ label is received from the target element.

For example, the following JSON file maps to the River objects provided below:

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[
  {
    "targets": [ "host-a:80", "host-b:80" ],
    "labels": {
      "cluster": "production",
      "region": "us-west-0"
    }
  },
  {
    "targets": [ "host-c:80" ],
    "labels": {
      "cluster": "development",
      "region": "us-west-0"
    }
  }
]

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[
  {
    __address__ = "host-a:80",
    cluster     = "production",
    region      = "us-west-0",
  },
  {
    __address__ = "host-b:80",
    cluster     = "production",
    region      = "us-west-0",
  },
  {
    __address__ = "host-c:80",
    cluster     = "development",
    region      = "us-west-0",
  },
]

Example pipeline

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local.file "example" {
  filename = env("TARGETS_FILE")
}

prometheus.scrape "default" {
  targets = discovery_target_decode(local.file.example.content)
}