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Quickly let's start the installation steps:
- Step 1 – Install Grafana Monitoring Tool. In this section we will cover installation of Grafana on Ubuntu. ...
- Step 2 – Install Grafana Loki Log aggregation System. ...
- Step 3 – Install Promtail Agent. ...
- Step 4 – Configure Loki Data Source. ...
- Step 5 – Visualize Logs on Grafana with Loki.
- How do I send logs to Grafana?
- What is Promtail Loki?
- What is Promtail?
- How do you set up Loki?
- How do you send logs to Loki?
- How do you get logs into Loki?
- What is Grafana Loki?
- How do you use Grafana Loki?
- How do you deploy Loki on Kubernetes?
- What is Loki datasource?
- Where do you put Promtails?
- How do I install Loki on Windows?
How do I send logs to Grafana?
On this page:
- Get started with Grafana Cloud Metrics and Logs, if you have existing Prometheus, Graphite and/or Loki instances. Ship your Prometheus series to Grafana Cloud. ...
- Get started with Grafana Cloud Metrics and Logs, if you're starting from scratch. Install and configure Prometheus.
What is Promtail Loki?
Loki components
Loki is a TSDB (Time-series database), it stores logs as split and gzipped chunks of data. The logs are ingested via the API and an agent, called Promtail (Tailing logs in Prometheus format), will scrape Kubernetes logs and add label metadata before sending it to Loki.
What is Promtail?
Promtail is an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Loki instance or Grafana Cloud. It is usually deployed to every machine that has applications needed to be monitored. It primarily: ... Attaches labels to log streams.
How do you set up Loki?
General process
- Download and install both Loki and Promtail.
- Download config files for both programs.
- Start Loki.
- Update the Promtail config file to get your logs into Loki.
- Start Promtail.
How do you send logs to Loki?
Quickly let's start the installation steps:
- Step 1 – Install Grafana Monitoring Tool. In this section we will cover installation of Grafana on Ubuntu. ...
- Step 2 – Install Grafana Loki Log aggregation System. ...
- Step 3 – Install Promtail Agent. ...
- Step 4 – Configure Loki Data Source. ...
- Step 5 – Visualize Logs on Grafana with Loki.
How do you get logs into Loki?
After you install and run Loki, you probably want to get logs from other applications into it. To get application logs into Loki, you need to edit the Promtail config file. Detailed information about configuring Promtail is available in Promtail configuration.
What is Grafana Loki?
Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.
How do you use Grafana Loki?
Loki in Grafana
- Log into your Grafana instance. ...
- In Grafana, go to Configuration > Data Sources via the cog icon on the left sidebar.
- Click the big + Add data source button.
- Choose Loki from the list.
How do you deploy Loki on Kubernetes?
Create a Kubernetes namespace to deploy the PLG Stack to:
- $ kubectl create namespace loki.
- $ helm repo add loki https://grafana.github.io/loki/charts.
- $ helm repo update.
- $ helm upgrade --install loki loki/loki-stack --namespace=loki --set grafana.enabled=true.
What is Loki datasource?
Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.
Where do you put Promtails?
Install Promtail
- # modify tag to most recent version docker pull grafana/promtail:2.0.0. Bash.
- helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts. Bash.
- $ helm upgrade --install promtail grafana/promtail --set "loki.serviceName=loki" Bash.
How do I install Loki on Windows?
Enable the Loki and Promtail services:
- systemd start loki && systemd enable loki.
- systemd start promtail && systemd enable promtail.
