Troubleshooting Promtail

• https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/promtail/troubleshooting/

cat /tmp/test.log | promtail --stdin --dry-run --client.url http://127.0.0.1:3100/loki/api/v1/push
Clients configured:
----------------------
url: http://127.0.0.1:3100/loki/api/v1/push
batchwait: 1s
batchsize: 1048576
follow_redirects: false
enable_http2: false
backoff_config:
  min_period: 500ms
  max_period: 5m0s
  max_retries: 10
timeout: 10s
tenant_id: ""
drop_rate_limited_batches: false
stream_lag_labels: "" 

2024-01-02T17:19:07.045211+0100{hostname="MacBook.local", job="stdin"}	your context from your file

cat /tmp/test.log | promtail --stdin --dry-run --client.url http://127.0.0.1:3100/loki/api/v1/push
(no output)

See also

• Promtail, /etc/promtail/config.yml, promtail [ -check-syntax, | -version | -help ]