[TP] Hands-on: Collecting and Dispatching Logs to Loki
What you will learn in this TP :
Introduction
The goal of this lab is to configure Grafana Alloy to read local log files, add context labels, and send them to a Grafana Loki instance.Log Pipeline
We will configure the blocks composing the pipeline in River language.-
1. Log Source
Add configuration to discover and read `/var/log/myapp/*.log` files. -
2. Log Processing
Add a processing block to dynamically add an `env=production` label to all collected log lines. -
3. Dispatching to Loki
Configure sending logs to a Loki instance available at `http://localhost:3100`.
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Course Glossary
An open-source, vendor-neutral telemetry collector designed to replace Grafana Agent, fully compatible with OpenTelemetry (OTel).