output-block.md

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- ../../otelcol/output-block/
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The output block configures a set of components to forward resulting telemetry data to.

The following arguments are supported:

Name	Type	Description	Default	Required
metrics	list(otelcol.Consumer)	List of consumers to send metrics to.	[]	no
logs	list(otelcol.Consumer)	List of consumers to send logs to.	[]	no
traces	list(otelcol.Consumer)	List of consumers to send traces to.	[]	no

The output block must be specified, but all of its arguments are optional. By default, telemetry data is dropped. To send telemetry data to other components, configure the metrics, logs, and traces arguments accordingly.