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BastionLinux/Grafana manual page
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
If you are running on Grafana Cloud, use: $ export GRAFANA_ADDR=https://logs-us-west1.grafana.net $ export GRAFANA_USERNAME=<username> $ export GRAFANA_PASSWORD=<password> Otherwise you can point LogCLI to a local instance directly without needing a username and password: $ export GRAFANA_ADDR=http://localhost:3100 Note: If you are running Loki behind a proxy server and you have authentication configured, you will also have to pass in GRAFANA_USERNAME and GRAFANA_PASSWORD accordingly. $ logcli labels job https://logs-dev-ops-tools1.grafana.net/api/prom/label/job/values cortex-ops/consul cortex-ops/cortex-gw
Promtail is an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Loki instance or Grafana Cloud. It is usually deployed to every machine that has applications needed to be monitored. It primarily: Discovers targets Attaches labels to log streams Pushes them to the Loki instance. Currently, Promtail can tail logs from two sources: local log files and the systemd journal
