diff --git a/component/config_test.go b/component/config_test.go
index 2ac8f0a4fc6..0a1476a251f 100644
--- a/component/config_test.go
+++ b/component/config_test.go
@@ -5,17 +5,12 @@ package component
 
 import (
 	"errors"
-	"fmt"
 	"reflect"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
-var _ fmt.Stringer = Type{}
-
 type configChildStruct struct {
 	Child    errConfig
 	ChildPtr *errConfig
@@ -199,222 +194,3 @@ func TestValidateConfig(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
-
-func TestNewType(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		name      string
-		shouldErr bool
-	}{
-		{name: "active_directory_ds"},
-		{name: "aerospike"},
-		{name: "alertmanager"},
-		{name: "alibabacloud_logservice"},
-		{name: "apache"},
-		{name: "apachespark"},
-		{name: "asapclient"},
-		{name: "attributes"},
-		{name: "awscloudwatch"},
-		{name: "awscloudwatchlogs"},
-		{name: "awscloudwatchmetrics"},
-		{name: "awscontainerinsightreceiver"},
-		{name: "awsecscontainermetrics"},
-		{name: "awsemf"},
-		{name: "awsfirehose"},
-		{name: "awskinesis"},
-		{name: "awsproxy"},
-		{name: "awss3"},
-		{name: "awsxray"},
-		{name: "azureblob"},
-		{name: "azuredataexplorer"},
-		{name: "azureeventhub"},
-		{name: "azuremonitor"},
-		{name: "basicauth"},
-		{name: "batch"},
-		{name: "bearertokenauth"},
-		{name: "bigip"},
-		{name: "carbon"},
-		{name: "cassandra"},
-		{name: "chrony"},
-		{name: "clickhouse"},
-		{name: "cloudflare"},
-		{name: "cloudfoundry"},
-		{name: "collectd"},
-		{name: "configschema"},
-		{name: "coralogix"},
-		{name: "couchdb"},
-		{name: "count"},
-		{name: "cumulativetodelta"},
-		{name: "datadog"},
-		{name: "dataset"},
-		{name: "db_storage"},
-		{name: "debug"},
-		{name: "deltatorate"},
-		{name: "demo"},
-		{name: "docker_observer"},
-		{name: "docker_stats"},
-		{name: "dynatrace"},
-		{name: "ecs_observer"},
-		{name: "ecs_task_observer"},
-		{name: "elasticsearch"},
-		{name: "exceptions"},
-		{name: "experimental_metricsgeneration"},
-		{name: "expvar"},
-		{name: "f5cloud"},
-		{name: "failover"},
-		{name: "file"},
-		{name: "filelog"},
-		{name: "filestats"},
-		{name: "file_storage"},
-		{name: "filter"},
-		{name: "flinkmetrics"},
-		{name: "fluentforward"},
-		{name: "forward"},
-		{name: "githubgen"},
-		{name: "gitprovider"},
-		{name: "golden"},
-		{name: "googlecloud"},
-		{name: "googlecloudpubsub"},
-		{name: "googlecloudspanner"},
-		{name: "googlemanagedprometheus"},
-		{name: "groupbyattrs"},
-		{name: "groupbytrace"},
-		{name: "haproxy"},
-		{name: "headers_setter"},
-		{name: "health_check"},
-		{name: "honeycombmarker"},
-		{name: "hostmetrics"},
-		{name: "host_observer"},
-		{name: "httpcheck"},
-		{name: "http_forwarder"},
-		{name: "iis"},
-		{name: "influxdb"},
-		{name: "instana"},
-		{name: "interval"},
-		{name: "jaeger"},
-		{name: "jaeger_encoding"},
-		{name: "jaegerremotesampling"},
-		{name: "jmx"},
-		{name: "journald"},
-		{name: "json_log_encoding"},
-		{name: "k8sattributes"},
-		{name: "k8s_cluster"},
-		{name: "k8s_events"},
-		{name: "k8sobjects"},
-		{name: "k8s_observer"},
-		{name: "kafka"},
-		{name: "kafkametrics"},
-		{name: "kinetica"},
-		{name: "kubeletstats"},
-		{name: "loadbalancing"},
-		{name: "logicmonitor"},
-		{name: "logstransform"},
-		{name: "logzio"},
-		{name: "loki"},
-		{name: "mdatagen"},
-		{name: "memcached"},
-		{name: "memory_limiter"},
-		{name: "metricstransform"},
-		{name: "mezmo"},
-		{name: "mongodb"},
-		{name: "mongodbatlas"},
-		{name: "mysql"},
-		{name: "namedpipe"},
-		{name: "nginx"},
-		{name: "nsxt"},
-		{name: "oauth2client"},
-		{name: "oidc"},
-		{name: "opamp"},
-		{name: "opampsupervisor"},
-		{name: "opencensus"},
-		{name: "opensearch"},
-		{name: "oracledb"},
-		{name: "osquery"},
-		{name: "otelarrow"},
-		{name: "otelcontribcol"},
-		{name: "oteltestbedcol"},
-		{name: "otlp"},
-		{name: "otlp_encoding"},
-		{name: "otlphttp"},
-		{name: "otlpjsonfile"},
-		{name: "ottl"},
-		{name: "podman_stats"},
-		{name: "postgresql"},
-		{name: "pprof"},
-		{name: "probabilistic_sampler"},
-		{name: "prometheus"},
-		{name: "prometheusremotewrite"},
-		{name: "prometheus_simple"},
-		{name: "pulsar"},
-		{name: "purefa"},
-		{name: "purefb"},
-		{name: "rabbitmq"},
-		{name: "receiver_creator"},
-		{name: "redaction"},
-		{name: "redis"},
-		{name: "remotetap"},
-		{name: "resource"},
-		{name: "resourcedetection"},
-		{name: "riak"},
-		{name: "routing"},
-		{name: "saphana"},
-		{name: "sapm"},
-		{name: "schema"},
-		{name: "sentry"},
-		{name: "servicegraph"},
-		{name: "signalfx"},
-		{name: "sigv4auth"},
-		{name: "skywalking"},
-		{name: "snmp"},
-		{name: "snowflake"},
-		{name: "solace"},
-		{name: "solarwindsapmsettings"},
-		{name: "span"},
-		{name: "spanmetrics"},
-		{name: "splunkenterprise"},
-		{name: "splunk_hec"},
-		{name: "sqlquery"},
-		{name: "sqlserver"},
-		{name: "sshcheck"},
-		{name: "statsd"},
-		{name: "sumologic"},
-		{name: "syslog"},
-		{name: "tail_sampling"},
-		{name: "tcplog"},
-		{name: "telemetrygen"},
-		{name: "tencentcloud_logservice"},
-		{name: "text_encoding"},
-		{name: "transform"},
-		{name: "udplog"},
-		{name: "vcenter"},
-		{name: "wavefront"},
-		{name: "webhookevent"},
-		{name: "windowseventlog"},
-		{name: "windowsperfcounters"},
-		{name: "zipkin"},
-		{name: "zipkin_encoding"},
-		{name: "zookeeper"},
-		{name: "zpages"},
-		{name: strings.Repeat("a", 63)},
-
-		{name: "", shouldErr: true},
-		{name: "contains spaces", shouldErr: true},
-		{name: "contains-dashes", shouldErr: true},
-		{name: "0startswithnumber", shouldErr: true},
-		{name: "contains/slash", shouldErr: true},
-		{name: "contains:colon", shouldErr: true},
-		{name: "contains#hash", shouldErr: true},
-		{name: strings.Repeat("a", 64), shouldErr: true},
-	}
-
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			ty, err := NewType(tt.name)
-			if tt.shouldErr {
-				assert.Error(t, err)
-			} else {
-				require.NoError(t, err)
-				assert.Equal(t, tt.name, ty.String())
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
diff --git a/component/identifiable.go b/component/identifiable.go
index 0b2c9cdf722..63b890b47ac 100644
--- a/component/identifiable.go
+++ b/component/identifiable.go
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ var (
 	nameRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`^[^\pZ\pC\pS]+$`)
 )
 
+var _ fmt.Stringer = Type{}
+
 // Type is the component type as it is used in the config.
 type Type struct {
 	name string
diff --git a/component/identifiable_test.go b/component/identifiable_test.go
index 9f0d203606c..ace96386bb8 100644
--- a/component/identifiable_test.go
+++ b/component/identifiable_test.go
@@ -101,3 +101,222 @@ func TestUnmarshalText(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestNewType(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name      string
+		shouldErr bool
+	}{
+		{name: "active_directory_ds"},
+		{name: "aerospike"},
+		{name: "alertmanager"},
+		{name: "alibabacloud_logservice"},
+		{name: "apache"},
+		{name: "apachespark"},
+		{name: "asapclient"},
+		{name: "attributes"},
+		{name: "awscloudwatch"},
+		{name: "awscloudwatchlogs"},
+		{name: "awscloudwatchmetrics"},
+		{name: "awscontainerinsightreceiver"},
+		{name: "awsecscontainermetrics"},
+		{name: "awsemf"},
+		{name: "awsfirehose"},
+		{name: "awskinesis"},
+		{name: "awsproxy"},
+		{name: "awss3"},
+		{name: "awsxray"},
+		{name: "azureblob"},
+		{name: "azuredataexplorer"},
+		{name: "azureeventhub"},
+		{name: "azuremonitor"},
+		{name: "basicauth"},
+		{name: "batch"},
+		{name: "bearertokenauth"},
+		{name: "bigip"},
+		{name: "carbon"},
+		{name: "cassandra"},
+		{name: "chrony"},
+		{name: "clickhouse"},
+		{name: "cloudflare"},
+		{name: "cloudfoundry"},
+		{name: "collectd"},
+		{name: "configschema"},
+		{name: "coralogix"},
+		{name: "couchdb"},
+		{name: "count"},
+		{name: "cumulativetodelta"},
+		{name: "datadog"},
+		{name: "dataset"},
+		{name: "db_storage"},
+		{name: "debug"},
+		{name: "deltatorate"},
+		{name: "demo"},
+		{name: "docker_observer"},
+		{name: "docker_stats"},
+		{name: "dynatrace"},
+		{name: "ecs_observer"},
+		{name: "ecs_task_observer"},
+		{name: "elasticsearch"},
+		{name: "exceptions"},
+		{name: "experimental_metricsgeneration"},
+		{name: "expvar"},
+		{name: "f5cloud"},
+		{name: "failover"},
+		{name: "file"},
+		{name: "filelog"},
+		{name: "filestats"},
+		{name: "file_storage"},
+		{name: "filter"},
+		{name: "flinkmetrics"},
+		{name: "fluentforward"},
+		{name: "forward"},
+		{name: "githubgen"},
+		{name: "gitprovider"},
+		{name: "golden"},
+		{name: "googlecloud"},
+		{name: "googlecloudpubsub"},
+		{name: "googlecloudspanner"},
+		{name: "googlemanagedprometheus"},
+		{name: "groupbyattrs"},
+		{name: "groupbytrace"},
+		{name: "haproxy"},
+		{name: "headers_setter"},
+		{name: "health_check"},
+		{name: "honeycombmarker"},
+		{name: "hostmetrics"},
+		{name: "host_observer"},
+		{name: "httpcheck"},
+		{name: "http_forwarder"},
+		{name: "iis"},
+		{name: "influxdb"},
+		{name: "instana"},
+		{name: "interval"},
+		{name: "jaeger"},
+		{name: "jaeger_encoding"},
+		{name: "jaegerremotesampling"},
+		{name: "jmx"},
+		{name: "journald"},
+		{name: "json_log_encoding"},
+		{name: "k8sattributes"},
+		{name: "k8s_cluster"},
+		{name: "k8s_events"},
+		{name: "k8sobjects"},
+		{name: "k8s_observer"},
+		{name: "kafka"},
+		{name: "kafkametrics"},
+		{name: "kinetica"},
+		{name: "kubeletstats"},
+		{name: "loadbalancing"},
+		{name: "logicmonitor"},
+		{name: "logstransform"},
+		{name: "logzio"},
+		{name: "loki"},
+		{name: "mdatagen"},
+		{name: "memcached"},
+		{name: "memory_limiter"},
+		{name: "metricstransform"},
+		{name: "mezmo"},
+		{name: "mongodb"},
+		{name: "mongodbatlas"},
+		{name: "mysql"},
+		{name: "namedpipe"},
+		{name: "nginx"},
+		{name: "nsxt"},
+		{name: "oauth2client"},
+		{name: "oidc"},
+		{name: "opamp"},
+		{name: "opampsupervisor"},
+		{name: "opencensus"},
+		{name: "opensearch"},
+		{name: "oracledb"},
+		{name: "osquery"},
+		{name: "otelarrow"},
+		{name: "otelcontribcol"},
+		{name: "oteltestbedcol"},
+		{name: "otlp"},
+		{name: "otlp_encoding"},
+		{name: "otlphttp"},
+		{name: "otlpjsonfile"},
+		{name: "ottl"},
+		{name: "podman_stats"},
+		{name: "postgresql"},
+		{name: "pprof"},
+		{name: "probabilistic_sampler"},
+		{name: "prometheus"},
+		{name: "prometheusremotewrite"},
+		{name: "prometheus_simple"},
+		{name: "pulsar"},
+		{name: "purefa"},
+		{name: "purefb"},
+		{name: "rabbitmq"},
+		{name: "receiver_creator"},
+		{name: "redaction"},
+		{name: "redis"},
+		{name: "remotetap"},
+		{name: "resource"},
+		{name: "resourcedetection"},
+		{name: "riak"},
+		{name: "routing"},
+		{name: "saphana"},
+		{name: "sapm"},
+		{name: "schema"},
+		{name: "sentry"},
+		{name: "servicegraph"},
+		{name: "signalfx"},
+		{name: "sigv4auth"},
+		{name: "skywalking"},
+		{name: "snmp"},
+		{name: "snowflake"},
+		{name: "solace"},
+		{name: "solarwindsapmsettings"},
+		{name: "span"},
+		{name: "spanmetrics"},
+		{name: "splunkenterprise"},
+		{name: "splunk_hec"},
+		{name: "sqlquery"},
+		{name: "sqlserver"},
+		{name: "sshcheck"},
+		{name: "statsd"},
+		{name: "sumologic"},
+		{name: "syslog"},
+		{name: "tail_sampling"},
+		{name: "tcplog"},
+		{name: "telemetrygen"},
+		{name: "tencentcloud_logservice"},
+		{name: "text_encoding"},
+		{name: "transform"},
+		{name: "udplog"},
+		{name: "vcenter"},
+		{name: "wavefront"},
+		{name: "webhookevent"},
+		{name: "windowseventlog"},
+		{name: "windowsperfcounters"},
+		{name: "zipkin"},
+		{name: "zipkin_encoding"},
+		{name: "zookeeper"},
+		{name: "zpages"},
+		{name: strings.Repeat("a", 63)},
+
+		{name: "", shouldErr: true},
+		{name: "contains spaces", shouldErr: true},
+		{name: "contains-dashes", shouldErr: true},
+		{name: "0startswithnumber", shouldErr: true},
+		{name: "contains/slash", shouldErr: true},
+		{name: "contains:colon", shouldErr: true},
+		{name: "contains#hash", shouldErr: true},
+		{name: strings.Repeat("a", 64), shouldErr: true},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			ty, err := NewType(tt.name)
+			if tt.shouldErr {
+				assert.Error(t, err)
+			} else {
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+				assert.Equal(t, tt.name, ty.String())
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}