Currently, to collect metrics from the AWS CloudWatch we are using AWS’s own cloudwatch-exporter, see the Prometheus: CloudWatch exporter — сбор метрик из AWS и графики в Grafana post (in Rus), but it has a few gaps: it’s written in Java, so uses CPU/memory of the monitoring host doesn’t scrapes AWS tags from resources uses… Read More »
The last time I configured Loki for logs collecting and monitoring was in February 2019 – almost a year ago, see the Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system post, when Loki was in its Beta state. Now we faced with outgoing traffic issues in our Production environments and can’t find who guilty for… Read More »
After implementing the Loki system on my job’s project – I decided to add it for myself, so see my RTFM blog server’s logs. Also – want to add the node_exporter and alertmanager, to be notified about high disk usage. In this post, I’ll describe the Prometheus, node_exporter, Grafana, Loki, and promtail set up process… Read More »
Let’s proceed with the Loki system. First post of this series – Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system and the second one – Grafana Labs: Loki – distributed system, labels and filters. There is the Grafana’s Slack community with the dedicated #loki channel where you can ask for some assist (and it’s really helpful).… Read More »
The previous post – Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system. There Loki, promtail, and Grafana were configured on the same host in one Docker Compose stack. Now I want to try some distributed setup: Grafana will work on a one host Loki – on the other one Promtail – will collect logs from… Read More »
Grafana 6.0 was still in Beta on Feb 2019, when the new feature was introduced – Loki, a log aggregation system available via another new ability – Explore. It’s similar to well-known ELK/EFK stack but more simple to set up and use and is intended to be used mostly with clouds and systems like Prometheus… Read More »