• The Loki project was started at Grafana Labs in 2018, and announced at KubeCon Seattle. Loki is released under the AGPLv3 license.
  • Grafana Loki is a set of open source components that can be composed into a fully featured logging stack.
  • Grafana queries Loki to perform filtering and select the desired results from the logs. These data can then be visualized as charts or other graphics.
  • Loki differs from Prometheus by focusing on logs instead of metrics, and delivering logs via push, instead of pull. PLG Stack (Promtail, Loki and Grafana).
  • Grafana Loki is a multi-tenant log aggregation system started by Grafana in 2018 and released under the Apache 2.0 license.
  • Grafana Loki can integrate with Linode Object Storage as a backend storage solution using the S3 protocol and S3 storage configuration.
  • Note that Promtail is considered to be feature complete, and future development for logs collection will be in Grafana Alloy. Loki is like Prometheus, but for logs...
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  • Grafana Loki is a modern open-source logging tool that handles the large log volumes generated in a complex Kubernetes microservices environment.
  • In this tutorial, we’ll look at Grafana Loki, a log aggregation system that’s part of the Grafana ecosystem.
  • Grafana Loki compresses the log and stores logs in chunks and stores them in filesystems or backend storage like AWS S3.