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 »
Today I decided to upgrade Grafana to already released version 6.0 and all other Docker images as well. Upgrade was successful – Loki eventually started displaying previously missed log-file names and other tags, just – immediately I got a bunch of CRITICAL alerts in our Slack from the blackbox-exporter which is used to check every… 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 »