How to Self-Host Loki & Promtail with Docker Compose and Connect to Grafana

[@mbnnm9796]

Nice article, everything looks fine but within Grafana I can't see any labels. Any idea?

[@Tekudachi]

Thank you so much! I was looking for that

[@Techdox]

No problem! :)

[@burloiumarian2665]

very cool ! nice job

[@Techdox]

Thanks!

[@HKTECH-001]

Well done! Please also create a video demonstrating how to set up notifications on Grafana.

[@Techdox]

Great suggestion!

[@elfatihkhalid]

Well done, great video. I got into a problem with following error: "msg="error running loki" err="mkdir /tmp/loki: permission denied" from loki container. when I run the docker compose using my user account (id = 1000:1000) with (root, docker, adm) groups membership, and I solved that using the following Method-1 (preferred): - run the following: { mkdir data && chmod 777 -R data } (as I noticed the loki container creates the data folder under the following user id (1001) or Method-2: add the root user id 0 to the docker-compose.yaml file {user: "0" } to both loki and promtail containers.

[@GundamExia88]

Great video. Is it possible to send logs from a public host/server to your Loki on your private network? Would you need to use a VPN or open up ports on your home router?

[@Techdox]

Either VPN or open up the ports yeah, but I would not open ports. VPN or something like tailscale would be the best bet

[@steala]

Love your videos, fellow Wellington person here! Any chance for a video showing how to pull in logs from several docker containers, from in the same loki host but also outside of the loki host?

[@Techdox]

Thanks for the kind words, Happy to look into it :)

[@ksoonsoon]

Hope you are doing well

[@asiraky]

you dont need to manually set the ip address in promtail config, just use the container name