Let’s Try Grafana Loki in K8s

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Introduction

In this post we will take look Grafana Loki, we want the k8s logs to look nice graphically, so I try do this with Grafana Loki. The log infrastructure is famous for its EFK stack, but I decided to give Grafana Loki a try because it’s lightweight, Prometheus-like, and newer open source.

Compared Grafana Loki to other log systems

Comparisons

Environment

• Minikube v1.20 stable
• Kubectl
• Vagrant
• Vagrant with all configuration files

Let’s start

Launch vagrantbox with minikube and installed Grafana Loki stack

C:\tmp
λ git clone https://github.com/spy86/minikube-grafana-loki.git
Cloning into 'minikube-grafana-loki'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 12, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (12/12), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Total 12 (delta 0), reused 9 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving…