opensuse-loki

Minimal openSUSE documentation for running loki grafana

https://github.com/grafana/loki#loki-like-prometheus-but-for-logs

Howto:

1) install grafana and prometheus on a vm or your system

You can get the rpm via this repo: (https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/server:monitoring)

2) Install loki and promtail from rpms packages from repo:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/server:monitoring/loki

Add the repository for your system and install the pkg zypper in loki

3) Activate systemd services:

In this example we assume for simplicity that promtail run in same machine like loki and grafana. ( this can be changed)

systemctl start loki

systemctl enable loki

loki is the main server, responsible for storing logs and processing queries.

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systemctl start promtail

systemctl enable promtail

promtail is the agent, responsible for gathering logs and sending them to Loki.

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4) Adapt config files:

/etc/loki/loki.yaml

and

/etc/loki/promtail.yaml

By defaul the promtail.yaml config file should monitor the logs file which is already a valid example to get started

For more info visit: https://github.com/grafana/loki#loki-like-prometheus-but-for-logs