Promtail

Promtail is an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Loki instance or Grafana Cloud.

cat /etc/promtail/config.yml

server:
  http_listen_port: 9080
  grpc_listen_port: 0

positions:
  filename: /tmp/positions.yaml 

clients:
  - url: http://loki:3100/loki/api/v1/push

scrape_configs:
- job_name: system
  static_configs:
  - targets:
      - localhost
    labels:
      job: varlogs
      __path__: /var/log/*log

Related

• Grafana Loki
• Thanos
• node-problem-detector

See also

• Grafana, Grafana datasources, Grafana Alerting, Grafana installation, Grafana Labs, Grafana Changelog, Grafana logs, docker-compose.yml (Grafana), Grafana Loki, Grafana Tanka, StatsD and Graphite, grafana-cli, Loki, LogQL, Grafana Enterprise, Grafana Cloud, Grafana alerts, Amazon Grafana, Grafana OnCall, Grafana Tempo, Grafana Mimir, Grafana agent, plugins, Terraform, Grafana dashboards, /etc/grafana/grafana.ini, Grafana Pyroscope
• Files: tail, mtail, promtail, aws logs tail, ktail, stern, kubectl logs
• Logs, Log collector, log management, log explorer, Linux logging, docker logs, minikube logs, Vector, Logstash, Filebeat, promtail, logfmt, Elasticsearch, fluentd, Mezmo (LogDNA), Scalyr, Loggly, Loki, tlog, cockpit, NXLog, Winston, Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, Logz.io, Logflare, Coralogix