Mastering Grafana Loki: Complete Guide to Installation, Configuration, and Integration | Part 1

Welcome to Part 1 of our comprehensive guide to Grafana Loki! In this video, we'll take you through everything you need to know about Grafana, the Loki architecture, step-by-step installation instructions, configuration tips, and a quick demo on integrating Grafana with Loki. Loki is a powerful logging backend, designed to be cost-effective and easy to operate. Whether you're new to Loki or looking to enhance your monitoring stack, this series is for you! Don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell icon for future updates on Part 2 and other exciting tech content!

⬇️Below are the topics we are going to discuss in this AWS Updates video:
00:00 - Introduction
01:26 - What is Loki
03:34 - Architecture of Loki
06:43 - Loki Installation
10:50 - Promtail installation
17:20 - Querying Logs
22:44 - Collecting App logs
29:56 - Conclusion

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[MultiGaurav]

That was really awesome demo on Loki, thanks Kodekloud team.

[tokara]

Great explanation and very easy to understand and follow along. Hope to see more like this.

[abhinavorugant]

Great explanation and very easy to understand!!👏

[Vnehadalassss]

This is awesome, can you also make video on installing loki with helm chart ?

[cyrilgonzales]

Good day Sir, , i am trying to use loki and promtail with my grafana. But we are using windows environment, do you have any guide for loki and promtail on windows?

[vlauciani]

Thanks for the video

I have a simple question regarding Promtail; I am using regexp to set labels. Are all the lines in the log that don't meet the regexp still sent to Loki? If "yes", is there any way to not do that and just send to Loki only the lines that pass the regexp?
In other words I’d like to send to Loki only a subset of log lines.

[teddybear]

Thanks for the video.
I am using Grafana cloud, and I want to collect logs from the Airflow. Now as you said, I am only getting the labels, not the actual logs. So if I use promtail, would I get all the logs which are present in the Airflow?
Also, if you could explain a bit more what do you mean by “basic logs” 4:18

[ramashish]

That's was really clean and clear explanation ❤

[rupakrath]

how can configure promtail to send multiple containers logs which are running on the same machine to loki with different labels

[independence_]

Thanks for the video. How do we set up to view Loki’s logs using systemd (rpa)

[fagobg]

Is there an easy way to add host name label in the promtail. Can you set a dynamic label? Something like hostname:{HOST}. Where HOST is an environment variable. When looking at logs in Grafana you would want to know the host they came from.

[ingazaitseva]

Thank you so match for this demo. It was very hopefull for me

[neeraj_gk]

can we take logs from S3, if yes please do a tutorial or reply a article on it

[rajasekhar]

In my current role we want build the open source like loki, minor, tempo, is it possible do same videos for mimir and tempo with s3 bucket as datastore in k8s and best practice for production level

[Shiv_]

I have a issue in this scenario, grafana not show all pods log,
Give solution for that ...plz..

[jayamurugans]

after the promtail start command, am getting the output same as here, but when i check the grafana console i cant see my log file paths or job names over there, i can only see the existing files and log paths of other servers, do i need to refresh or do anything on the grafana or loki server, please advice

[sarvagyamaithani]

Can't we install/configure Grafana/Loki in the application server ?

[dragonball]

Very good video, Thank you for making it!

[nsohche-tk]

This was amazing and very helpful but i have a question .. is grafana loki better option in general than splunk ?

[emiljaquinjoy]

Great video!!! is there any way to store the logs in S3 bucket instead of local file system