---
title: "prometheus.exporter.static | Grafana Alloy documentation"
description: "Learn about prometheus.exporter.static"
---

# `prometheus.exporter.static`

> **EXPERIMENTAL**: This is an [experimental](/docs/release-life-cycle/) component. Experimental components are subject to frequent breaking changes, and may be removed with no equivalent replacement. To enable and use an experimental component, you must set the `stability.level` [flag](/docs/alloy/latest/reference/cli/run/) to `experimental`.

`prometheus.exporter.static` loads metrics from text specified in [`Prometheus exposition format`](https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/) and exposes them for scraping.

You can specify multiple `prometheus.exporter.static` components by giving them different labels.

## Usage

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```alloy
prometheus.exporter.static "<LABEL>" {
}
```

## Arguments

You can use the following argument with `prometheus.exporter.static`:

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| Name   | Type     | Description                           | Default | Required |
|--------|----------|---------------------------------------|---------|----------|
| `text` | `string` | Text in Prometheus exposition format. | `""`    | no       |

## Exported fields

The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components.

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| Name      | Type                | Description                                               |
|-----------|---------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| `targets` | `list(map(string))` | The targets that can be used to collect exporter metrics. |

For example, the `targets` can either be passed to a `discovery.relabel` component to rewrite the targets’ label sets or to a `prometheus.scrape` component that collects the exposed metrics.

The exported targets use the configured [in-memory traffic](../../../../get-started/component_controller/#in-memory-traffic) address specified by the [run command](../../../cli/run/).

## Component health

`prometheus.exporter.static` is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid configuration. In those cases, exported fields retain their last healthy values.

## Debug information

`prometheus.exporter.static` doesn’t expose any component-specific debug information.

## Debug metrics

`prometheus.exporter.static` doesn’t expose any component-specific debug metrics.

## Example

This example uses a [`prometheus.scrape` component](../prometheus.scrape/) to collect metrics from `prometheus.exporter.static`:

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```alloy
prometheus.exporter.static "demo" {
    text = `
# HELP http_requests_total The total number of HTTP requests.
# TYPE http_requests_total counter
http_requests_total{method="post",code="200"} 1027
http_requests_total{method="post",code="400"}    3

# HELP http_request_duration_seconds A histogram of the request duration.
# TYPE http_request_duration_seconds histogram
http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{le="0.05"} 24054
http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{le="0.1"} 33444
http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{le="0.2"} 100392
http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{le="0.5"} 129389
http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{le="1"} 133988
http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{le="+Inf"} 144320
http_request_duration_seconds_sum 53423
http_request_duration_seconds_count 144320
    `
}

// Configure a prometheus.scrape component to collect static metrics.
prometheus.scrape "demo" {
  targets    = prometheus.exporter.static.demo.targets
  forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.demo.receiver]
}

prometheus.remote_write "demo" {
  endpoint {
    url = "<PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE_URL>"

    basic_auth {
      username = "<USERNAME>"
      password = "<PASSWORD>"
    }
  }
}
```

Replace the following:

- *`<PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE_URL>`* : The URL of the Prometheus `remote_write` compatible server to send metrics to.
- *`<USERNAME>`* : The username to use for authentication to the `remote_write` API.
- *`<PASSWORD>`* : The password to use for authentication to the `remote_write` API.

## Compatible components

`prometheus.exporter.static` has exports that can be consumed by the following components:

- Components that consume [Targets](../../../compatibility/#targets-consumers)

> Note
> 
> Connecting some components may not be sensible or components may require further configuration to make the connection work correctly. Refer to the linked documentation for more details.