---
title: "export | Grafana Alloy documentation"
description: "Learn about the export configuration block"
---

# `export`

`export` is an optional configuration block used to specify an emitted value of a [custom component](../../../get-started/custom_components/). `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](../declare/).

## Usage

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```alloy
export "<ARGUMENT_NAME>" {
  value = <ARGUMENT_VALUE>
}
```

## Arguments

You can use the following arguments with `export`:

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| 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:

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```alloy
declare "pods_and_nodes" {
  discovery.kubernetes "pods" {
    role = "pod"
  }

  discovery.kubernetes "nodes" {
    role = "node"
  }

  export "kubernetes_resources" {
    value = array.concat(
      discovery.kubernetes.pods.targets,
      discovery.kubernetes.nodes.targets,
    )
  }
}
```