Grafana Loki: Like Prometheus, But for logs.
summary
Loki claims a cheaper, easier log store by indexing labels not full-text index and linking logs to Prometheus metadata, ingesting with the promtail agent and optionally storing on BoltDB or cloud stores like Bigtable. The project hits surprising traction — 6k+ GitHub stars and 80–90 contributors within months — and runs as a single binary or as ~10 microservices in production. Live tailing and context search exist, demoed but occasionally flaky.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:46Welcome
- 2:25What is Loki
- 4:28Todays Agenda
- 4:41FOSDEM
- 5:03Loki overview
- 8:35Integration with existing systems
- 10:29Prometheus Tale
- 12:17Airplane Mode
- 14:20Microservice Mode
- 15:38Summary
- 16:02Halfway
- 16:35Log Filter Chain
- 18:22Live Demo
- 24:45Whats Next
- 25:28LogQL
- 26:40Alerts
- 28:11Questions
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