Grafana Loki
Installation
Create dirs for Loki:
cd ~
mkdir promtail
mkdir loki
mkdir grafana
Create a Docker-Compose file
vim docker-compose.yml
version: "3"
networks:
loki:
services:
loki:
image: grafana/loki:2.4.0
volumes:
- /home/aagern/loki:/etc/loki
ports:
- "3101:3100"
restart: unless-stopped
command: -config.file=/etc/loki/loki-local-config.yaml
networks:
- loki
promtail:
image: grafana/promtail:2.4.0
volumes:
- /var/log:/var/log
- /home/aagern/promtail:/etc/promtail
restart: unless-stopped
command: -config.file=/etc/loki/promtail-local-config.yaml
networks:
- loki
grafana:
image: grafana/grafana:latest
user: "1000"
volumes:
- /home/aagern/grafana:/var/lib/grafana
ports:
- "3000:3000"
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- loki
Note
The config files MUST be in the inner container directory!
Loki Configs
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/loki/master/cmd/loki/loki-local-config.yaml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/loki/main/clients/cmd/promtail/promtail-local-config.yaml
Promtail config
server:
http_listen_port: 9080
grpc_listen_port: 0
positions:
filename: /tmp/positions.yaml
clients:
- url: http://loki:3101/loki/api/v1/push
# Local machine logs
scrape_configs:
- job_name: local
static_configs:
- targets:
- localhost
labels:
job: varlogs
__path__: /var/log/*log
#scrape_configs:
#- job_name: docker
# pipeline_stages:
# - docker: {}
# static_configs:
# - labels:
# job: docker
# path: /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log
Create the containers
cd ~
sudo docker-compose up -d --force-recreate
sudo docker ps
Data Sources
Go to Grafana :3000 First login/password = admin/admin
Add New Data Source… → Loki
http://loki:3100
Explore {job=varlogs} |= “Network”
Docker logs
scrape_configs:
- job_name: docker
pipeline_stages:
- docker: {}
static_configs:
- labels:
job: docker
path: /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log
Install a Docker Driver https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/clients/docker-driver/
docker plugin install grafana/loki-docker-driver:latest --alias loki --grant-all-permissions
sudo docker plugin ls
Check config: https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/clients/docker-driver/configuration/
{
"debug" : true,
"log-driver": "loki",
"log-opts": {
"loki-url": "http://localhost:3100/loki/api/v1/push",
"loki-batch-size": "400"
}
}
- Config:
vim /etc/docker/daemon.json
- Restart Docker:
sudo systemctl restart docker