I love your products and how active you guys are with webinars and these kind of videos. I've been working with Grafana and Loki for 3+ years now and I found them amazing. I will just ask for one thing, Could you guys please make a more detailed (not so beginner) video about loki's configuration? After all this time I still find myself lost with a lot of the config parameters and sometimes the documentation is not enough(some definitios look vague to me). I will love to see something more in depth, someting more for those whiare alredy out of the beginners phase (I mean, basic set up or docker compose in lcoal env). It would be awesome to see one of you going through Loki's configuration explaining each section with the most relevant things on them .If you guys read this, thanks a lot!
Hi @jdpalciob, absolutely we are working up to this. I must admit I have been upskilling myself along side building this content. Hopefully more content like this soon! ~ Jay
Consider if using Docker is really "beginner" level. Personally, I believe that showing how to do all this directly under Linux will provide a better understanding of how the applications work and avoid the added configuration complications of something like Docker. Having a docker compose file that just magically spins up a bunch of processes like this hides some valuable understandings.
Hi @James thank you for the feedback. I will keep this in mind for next time. The reason I use docker is it allows me to simulate a full stack environment quickly. It also means others can follow along without worrying to much what Linux Distro they are using. I do have some more content around Alloy that installs directly on an Ubuntu here: grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/tutorials/send-logs-to-loki/ ~ Jay
Would love to know more about the labels, specifically how to dynamically discover and relabel service_name based on the path of the log files, I'm currently struggling with how to achieve this labeling setup: /var/log/app1/ > service_name=app1 /var/log/app2/ > service_name=app2
Thank you very much, i was waiting for the Alloy video and it is finally here! What i don't understand is why in the Alloy graph the arrow goes from loki.source.file to local.file.match and not the other way around, i.e. the way pipeline stages actually go (match files > map source to targets > process > ship to loki) . Or am i missing something?
Hi @legooos extremely pleased to enjoyed it! We have only scratched the surface so expect some more Alloy content in the future :) ! I am going to feed this back to the team as I also agree based upon the movement of data. I belive currently its due to the fact that loki.source.file calls local.file_match to get the list of scrapeble files.
Hi @TobiasWolf-wx6lk! Thank you for watching the video, absolutely agree with you! Its bit of a presenters tic that I have. I will actively be trying to improve this as I create more how to guides 😊
