💎 Rails Loki Exporter 💎 is a simple log epxporter for Rails.

Export logs for your Rails application to Loki instance and access them through Grafana dashboard.

❗ Before you start make sure you set up the following:

• Grafana Dashboard
• Loki Server

Rails Loki Exporter's installation is pretty straightforward.

Using Bundler:

• Add a line for Rails Loki Exporter gem in your Rails application Gemfile:

...
gem 'rails_loki_exporter', '~> <version>'
...

• Install dependencies using bundler:

$ bundle install

• In your Rails application create config/config.yml file:

auth_enabled: true
base_url: 'Your grafana loki url' 
user_name: 'Your User number'
password: 'Your Grafana.com API Token'
log_file_path: 'log/#{Rails.env}.log'
logs_type: '%w(ERROR WARN FATAL INFO DEBUG)'
interaction_interval: 5
max_buffer_size: 100
intercept_logs: true

• Add block for Rails Loki Exporter in your application.rb file:

require 'ruby_for_grafana_loki'
   ...
   ...
   ...

   config.after_initialize do
      config_file_path = File.join(Rails.root, 'config', 'config.yml')
      logger = RailsLokiExporters.create_logger(config_file_path)
      Rails.logger = logger
   end

• Start your Rails application:

$ rails s

Add additional notes about how to deploy this on a production system.

Add links to external resources for this project, such as CI server, bug tracker, etc.