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Instrument and send data

Grafana Alloy

Reference

Configuration blocks

Grafana Cloud

Configuration blocks

Configuration blocks are optional top-level blocks that can be used to configure various parts of the Alloy process. Unlabeled configuration blocks can only be defined once.

Configuration blocks are not components, so they have no exports.