https://github.com/ruanbekker/docker-promtail-loki

Docker Compose Stack with Grafana Loki and Promtail
https://github.com/ruanbekker/docker-promtail-loki

docker docker-compose grafana logging loki promtail

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Docker Compose Stack with Grafana Loki and Promtail

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ruanbekker/docker-promtail-loki
• Owner: ruanbekker
• Created: 2022-11-17T16:32:55.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-21T12:29:24.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-14T14:09:34.336Z (8 days ago)
• Topics: docker, docker-compose, grafana, logging, loki, promtail
• Language: Makefile
• Homepage: https://blog.ruanbekker.com/blog/2022/11/18/logging-with-docker-promtail-and-grafana-loki/
• Size: 16.6 KB
• Stars: 72
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 35
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# docker-promtail-loki

Docker Compose Stack with Grafana Loki, Promtail and the Grafana [Explore Logs](https://grafana.com/blog/2024/04/09/find-your-logs-data-with-explore-logs-no-logql-required/) plugin.

> [!NOTE]  

> For a full example with prometheus, alertmanager, cadvisor, node-exporter and loki, please see the following repo:

> - https://github.com/ruanbekker/docker-monitoring-stack-gpnc

## Usage

Start the stack with:

```bash

make up

```

Access nginx on http://localhost:8080

## View Logs



Then navigate to grafana on http://localhost:3000 and select explore on the left and select the container:



And you will see the logs:



## Explore Logs

The grafana explore-logs app can be found under explore:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/14aa2b93-8baf-441b-bd18-eeade5dd575c)

Any application that logs to Loki can be discovered here:



Here we can view the log content for the selected `service_name`:



This view we can explore the different labels thats available for our selected service:



For example, we can select the `level` label, which will then append that to our LogQL query and present us with this view:



We can then include `error` for example and we will see all the error logs for our selected service:



We can then also select "Open in Explore" and our query will be pre-populated for us, eg. `{service_name="tempo-ingester", level="error"} | logfmt`:



We can also explore logs by fields:



As well as patterns:



For more information about exploring logs without LogQL, view Grafana's blog post:

- [Find your logs data with Explore Logs: No LogQL required!](https://grafana.com/blog/2024/04/09/find-your-logs-data-with-explore-logs-no-logql-required/)