---
title: "SignalExport"
description: "one export of one signal kind from the collector to the store as Parquet"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/signalexport
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# SignalExport

one export of one signal kind from the collector to the store as Parquet

[figure: SignalExport is a work at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | work |
| scope | platform |
| key | the signal kind and the interval |
| store | postgres |
| family | observability |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `signal` | `one of traces \| logs \| metrics` | yes |  |
| `interval` | `duration` | yes |  |
| `files_written` | `[text]` | yes |  |
| `rows` | `count` | yes |  |
| `bytes` | `bytes` | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns SignalExport directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.