Set the environment variables

This milestone happens on your machine, not in Grafana Cloud. The SDK reads five AGENTO11Y_ environment variables when you create the client, so set them in the shell or process that runs your agent.

1. Open a terminal on the machine where you run your agent. Stay in this terminal for the rest of this milestone and for Milestone 5.

2. Copy the following commands into that terminal, but don’t run them yet. export sets each variable in that shell so the SDK can read it when you create the client.

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   export AGENTO11Y_ENDPOINT="{AGENTO11Y_ENDPOINT}"
   export AGENTO11Y_PROTOCOL=http
   export AGENTO11Y_AUTH_MODE=basic
   export AGENTO11Y_AUTH_TENANT_ID="{AGENTO11Y_INSTANCE_ID}"
   export AGENTO11Y_AUTH_TOKEN="{ACCESS_POLICY_TOKEN}"

3. Replace the placeholders in those commands.

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   Variable	Value	Where it came from
   AGENTO11Y_ENDPOINT	API URL	Milestone 2
   AGENTO11Y_PROTOCOL	http	Fixed value for Grafana Cloud
   AGENTO11Y_AUTH_MODE	basic	Fixed value; the mode documented for Grafana Cloud
   AGENTO11Y_AUTH_TENANT_ID	Instance ID	Milestone 2
   AGENTO11Y_AUTH_TOKEN	The access policy token (glc_...)	Milestone 3

4. Run the commands, then keep this shell open. Milestone 5 runs the sample from the same shell, so the client is created after the variables are set. If you use a secret manager or an untracked .env file instead of export, load it in the same way before you run the agent.

The five variables are set in the shell that will run your agent.