Grafana Loki: Like Prometheus, But for logs. - Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs

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Grafana Loki: Like Prometheus, But for logs. - Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs
Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be cost effective and easy to operate, as it does not index the contents of the logs, but rather labels for each log stream. Loki initially targets Kubernetes logging, using Prometheus service discovery to gather labels for log streams. As such, Loki enables you to easily switch between metrics and logs, streamlining the incident response process - a workflow we have built into the latest version of Grafana. In this talk we will discuss the motivation behind Loki, its design and architecture, and what the future holds. Its early days after the launch at KubeCon Seattle, but so far the response to the project has been overwhelming, with more the 4.5k GitHub stars and over 12hrs at the top spot on Hacker News.
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[@promisepreston]

I enjoyed this talk so well.
Thank you so much.

[@jean-baptistelasselle4562]

loki = my dream log agregator/indexer come true...

[@ratio4life]

great tool, I just wish it would be working smoothly with docker as well out of the box (not really the case when deployed in a docker container itself).

[@classicryda120908]

watching this in 2021 because my work requires me to study this loki thing.. but then i realized how great 2019 was :(

[@anothercrappypianist]

20:36 those headlines are legit funny.

[@jean-baptistelasselle4562]

oh f***... clicking on the log line and then get context... :o it's been a long time ive been that impressed

[@sreyasvpariyath]

Can the logs from Grafana be Exported?

[@suleimanabualrob7018]

One question: is loki work only with kubernetes workload? Can I push non-containerized log applications to loki?
and if yes, how loki index them, as it depends on lable?

[@lousab6341]

Just follow github.com/grafana/loki/tree/v1.2.0/production. Use container and then in five minutes you'll just monitor everything

[@vme50eatkfc]

Why the name promtail, not lokitail?

[@medineshkatwal]

Because like prometheus extract metrics. promtail extract log.

[@3dmagix]

​@@medineshkatwal No, it's because they use Prometheus service discovery libraries to collect job metadata which is then associated with the log file.
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[@markusviel6440]

lol 2.800 Followers ... did it pay of ? Are you divorced by now because of the "Twitter War" ?

[@AlexDresko]

I'm 20 minutes into this video and I'm not impressed at all. We use structured logging with Seq and it seems way more powerful than this.

[@AlexDresko]

Finished the video. At least now I know not to spend anymore time looking at Loki.

[@alk9962]

@@AlexDresko What is better? Could you provide few things why it is better or just the link which explains why this thing is better than Loki. Many thanks