Getting started with Grafana Loki (Grafana Office Hours #09)

Senior Principal Solutions Engineer Ward Bekker talks about getting started with Grafana Loki: what Loki is, why you need log aggregation, and how it fits into the rest of the Grafana stack. He is joined by Developer Advocates Paul Balogh and Nicole van der Hoeven to tell you everything you need to know about Loki.
00:00:00 Introductions
00:03:34 What is a log? How is it different from a metric?
00:12:29 Why is it called Loki?
00:14:58 What is Grafana Loki?
00:20:50 How is Loki different from alternatives?
00:27:20 How does Loki work?
00:33:39 The architecture of Loki
00:42:14 Q - What to use for object storage with Loki
00:44:13 Q - Which Helm chart to use for Loki
00:48:56 Q - How do you do alerting with Loki?
00:52:29 Q - What is the backend component in the Loki Helm chart?
00:53:33 Loki dashboard on Grafana Play
00:56:36 5-minute summary
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[@fahdfprime3314]

Hello, can we have a full example of production ready helm chart to install loki / tempo / mimir? Installing them one by one we are wasting a lot of time trying to get the right resources to set. Wish I could get some one to share my work with an make it up and running Regards

[@DavidAllen-cz7wr]

Good point, this got discussed in the video at this time code, and you can get Ward's recommendation here at 45:43, he talks about "microservices mode" with independent reader/writer scaling.

[@fahdfprime3314]

Hello@@DavidAllen-cz7wr thank you for your answer but I mean going deeper because I did all of that and I have around 54 pods running for the whole stack Grafana / agents/ loki / tempo / mimir / cache etc Using s3 and it got so slow that even grafana couldn't fetch data older than 5 days

[@lukas-pastva]

doom!

[@Grafana]

You got the right answer! :D - Nicole