Promtail

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Agent shipping the contents of local logs (e.g. files, systemd's journal, k8s pods) to some Grafana Loki instance.

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Comes packaged with Loki releases.

Setup

# Install via package repository.
apt install 'promtail'
dnf install 'promtail'

# Run via Docker.
docker run --name 'promtail' -d \
  -p '9080:9080' -v "$(pwd)/config/promtail.yml:/etc/promtail/config.yml:ro" \
  'grafana/promtail:3.3.2' -config.file='/etc/promtail/config.yml'

Default configuration file for package-based installations is /etc/promtail/config.yml.

Usage

# Do a test run
promtail -dry-run -config.file '/etc/promtail/config.yml'

# Check the server is working
curl 'http://promtail.fqdn:9080/ready'
curl 'http://promtail.fqdn:9080/metrics'

# Connect to the web server
open 'http://promtail.fqdn:9080/'

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Promtail

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