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Documentation Grafana Agent Flow mode Reference Components reference prometheus.exporter.agent

prometheus.exporter.agent

The prometheus.exporter.agent component collects and exposes metrics about the agent itself.

Usage

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prometheus.exporter.agent "agent" {
}

Arguments

prometheus.exporter.agent accepts no arguments.

Exported fields

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

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 address specified by the run command.

Component health

prometheus.exporter.agent is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid configuration.

Debug information

prometheus.exporter.agent does not expose any component-specific debug information.

Debug metrics

prometheus.exporter.agent does not expose any component-specific debug metrics.

Example

This example uses a prometheus.scrape component to collect metrics from prometheus.exporter.agent:

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prometheus.exporter.agent "example" {}

// Configure a prometheus.scrape component to collect agent metrics.
prometheus.scrape "demo" {
  targets    = prometheus.exporter.agent.example.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.agent has exports that can be consumed by the following components:

• Components that consume Targets