Meet Grafana LOKI, a Log Aggregation System for EVERYTHING

OK, nerd talk: What's your favorite logging system? (would this ever come up in a normal conversation???)

GREAT VIDEO, got me through Loki and Syslog, thank you Tim

Hi! Before all, amazing video!!
But, I'm having an issue when I try to do the first query, I see "No logs volume available". I already checked /ready and /metrics and looks good. Do you know which can be the problem?
Thanks a lot

source code?

Thank you so much for the knowledgeable session

Hi , may I know how to add the prometheus , snmp exporter also include in the docker?
My purpose is monitor linux system, windows system , and network deivce e.g Cisco switch , FortiGate firewall . Thank you

Doc link isn't working for me

Thanks, great explanation indeed

These guides are insane. No one goes to the detail that you do. You explain why and how commands and config files work rather that just reading them. Love your channel!

receiving an error when running docker-compose up -d
I did try doing this on my own before and thought i cleared everything from that but not sure what i did.

any help would be appreciated

ERROR: Named volume "home/serveradmin/docker_volumes/grafana:/var/lib/grafana:rw" is used in service "grafana" but no declaration was found in the volumes section.

Simply amazing

elk definitely

docker compose up -d --force-recreate
mkdir: can't create directory '/var/lib/grafana/plugins': Permission denied
GF_PATHS_DATA='/var/lib/grafana' is not writable.

Awesome tutorial Tim, as usual you nailed thank you for your hard work.

Great explanation, thanks a lot.

Hey Tim, Love the video great job, How would this apply to the Raspberry Pi/Orange Pi/Rock Pi? Thanks for your hard work. Can it be installed on RPi 4 or the others I mentioned above?

Hello, I have LXC containers (15) with dockers running inside, have you found a way to monitor them without installing the agent on all of them?

funny enough this tutorial doesn`t work anymore .

let me ask 1 question Loki is possible to connect with old container logs after using docker plugin

Great tutorial!!! Is is difficult to get logs out of loki without Granfana Dashboard.

Is there a GitHub repository showing the various configuration files? That would be helpful.

Down voted. A few diagrams and less text showing and NO docker inside a tutorial and it might have been helpful .... but at least now I have enough keywords to search google

Is there a video on how to set up the dashboard?

thank you for validating my use of nano. we are nano brothers, brother.

for the syslog, see if you can point the logs towards a dummy ip address. this way if someone gets into you system, they won't be able to find and mess with the logging server

I got this working well for standard logs . I'm curious if I can send other logs, like from ansible pull or from application that I write, to promtail as well.

Google wasn't useful for answering this question, so maybe I'll hit up reddit and Grafana forums.

Thanks! This was informative! It's worth mentioning that Promtail is not required if you are setting Loki as the Docker daemon default logging driver

Stupid question, what do you use for SIEM solution in this setup, LOKI is not one or do they plan on it as per github. What would you forward logs to? Graylog or ELK?

Hi mister, my name is jose manuel, I hope you can help me to confugure this grafana-loki-promtail to check any file of the system if it is possible, is it possible? I want to mean , we creat a file in home called file with text, simple text and can I see its content with grafana-loki-promtail? With out docker o something like that, can you help me?

thanks a lot.

Just come across your video. Great tutorial. One question: what dashboard are you using for this? It's something I would be interested in using. Thanks

Is there any reason why you do a touch followed by a nano edit? Couldn't you simply nano into a new file and save one bash line?

Has anyone managed to successfully install the Loki driver for ARMv7 (Raspberry Pi 4)?

Hi friends,
Note : logs are from ubuntu server....
I'm looking for a log retention for 3 months in grafana loki .... How can we extend the retention period from the default 30 days to 90 days ??

Excellent! I am a long time user of Grafana and do a lot with it, but now the job is to manage the logs: here we are! Loki is the tool we want to deploy. Thanks a lot for your video, brillant, will be very helpful!

Remap Caps Lock to Ctrl if your control key is broken! Easier to reach, I do this by default. Great tutorial.

hello dear it's a great video, i want to know how can docker log collect from different server using prom tail

I want to send only Error Logs and need to define that in promtail configuration file , so i do not need to send all logs to loki before sending logs it will filtered and send only error logs that is required , pls help ???

Dear Team, Any update on the Grafana 9 Video Full Tutorial. I understood you are helping the poor public who unable to pay for learning but wanted to get a good job to fill their stomach and well establish in society. My heartly humble request, think for a Windows or Linux Server Admin , They do not have data scientist knowledge to run the latest Grafana 9, Influx DB, Prometheus software's but you can make video from ABCD label (Titbit knowledge). without keeping anything secret/hidden, so that they can learn fully., They can create the minimum all type of device connected for monitoring , Please make 100 type of ready made templates for Windows, Linux with alerting, so that they can use directly in their live environment . I am on of them. Thank you, your well wisher Bibek Kumar...👍🙏

great tutorial ! where can i find the code ?

Thanks for these excellent walk throughs. It's not easy to cover this level of stuff and still be interesting to watch.

I've watched so many deployment videos trying to get a better all around understanding on all the NMS out there, what they can do, how they operate under the hood, etc. This by far is the absolute best I have seen and definitely earned you a sub. Most deployment videos tend to be quite dry, very un-explainative, and usually feel like a 'just do this real quick and it works' video. Thank you!!!

Hey Tim, great tutorial, I had decided on Loki already. Still, I have an issue with how to set up log retention using my Digitalocean space as external storage support, so I'm wondering if you got anything to share on that..?

Can this be done in a VM? I really don't have the time to learn about docker, containers. Thanks.

The syslog configuration isn't working for me and since you didn't show it working I assume it didn't work for you either.

very nice thanks for this

Hi Techno Tim. Your link to documentation is dead 😞 Please fix ☺️

Hey, Thanks for providing docker-compose grafana loki setup. Could you please kubernats (using kind) grafana loki yml if possible(for capturing the ISTIO logs)