Grafana Loki Docker

Grafana Loki is a log aggregation tool, and it is the core of a fully-featured logging stack.

Docker

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/loki/v2.4.1/cmd/loki/loki-local-config.yaml -O loki-config.yaml
docker run --name loki -v $(pwd):/mnt/config -p 3100:3100 grafana/loki:2.4.1 -config.file=/mnt/config/loki-config.yaml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/loki/v2.4.1/clients/cmd/promtail/promtail-docker-config.yaml -O promtail-config.yaml
docker run -v $(pwd):/mnt/config -v /var/log:/var/log --link loki grafana/promtail:2.4.1 -config.file=/mnt/config/promtail-config.yaml

Docker Compose

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/loki/v2.4.1/production/docker-compose.yaml -O docker-compose.yaml
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yaml up
  • mkdir grafana && chmod 777 grafana

  • grafana-loki-promtail.yaml

    • loki-config.yaml

    • promtail-config.yaml

  • http://localhost:3000/

LogQL: Log query language

Arithmetic Examples

1 + 1

Log range aggregations

count_over_time({job="varlogs"}[5m])

HTTP API

These endpoints are exposed by all components:

  • GET /ready

  • GET /metrics

  • GET /config

  • GET /loki/api/v1/status/buildinfo

Grafana Loki’s Architecture

https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/fundamentals/overview/loki-overview-2.png

https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/fundamentals/architecture/loki_architecture_components.svg

References