Grafana Loki Log Aggregation Agent

Configures Grafana Loki log pipelines with Promtail collectors and LogQL queries. Supports multi-tenant log routing, retention policies, and correlation with Grafana Tempo traces.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• $ git clone https://github.com/grafana/loki
• Alternatively, on Unix systems you can use make to build the binary, which adds additional arguments to the go build command.
• $ make loki

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Docker Driver Client is a Docker plugin to send logs directly to Loki from Docker containers.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• does not do full text indexing on logs. By storing compressed, unstructured logs and only indexing metadata, Loki is simpler to operate and cheaper to run.

• Installing Loki

• Installing Alloy

• Source: https://github.com/grafana/loki

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/loki/HEAD/README.md

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange