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title: "labelallow | Grafana Enterprise Logs documentation"
description: "labelallow stage The labelallow stage is an action stage that allows only the provided labels to be included in the label set that is sent to Loki with the log entry."
---

> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# `labelallow` stage

The labelallow stage is an action stage that allows only the provided labels to be included in the label set that is sent to Loki with the log entry.

## Schema

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```yaml
labelallow:
  - [<string>]
  ...
```

### Examples

For the given pipeline:

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```yaml
kubernetes_sd_configs:
 - role: pod 
pipeline_stages:
- docker: {}    
- labelallow:
    - kubernetes_pod_name
    - kubernetes_container_name
```

Given the following incoming labels:

- `kubernetes_pod_name`: `"loki-pqrs"`
- `kubernetes_container_name`: `"loki"`
- `kubernetes_pod_template_hash`: `"79f5db67b"`
- `kubernetes_controller_revision_hash`: `"774858987d"`

Only the below labels would be sent to `loki`

- `kubernetes_pod_name`: `"loki-pqrs"`
- `kubernetes_container_name`: `"loki"`