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+# This is an example mtail programme for exporting no code instrumentation
+#
+# No code has no instrumentation, thus requires an external program to sift
+# and export metrics from other sources; in this case with mtail from any log
+# files.
+#
+# See https://github.com/google/mtail for more details on how this works.