Grafana is only for viewing Dashboard. Loki has to be installed in the same system in order to feed the logs into grafana.
The following steps are used for Loki setup,
Installation script
#!/bin/bash
echo "Updating System & Installing Dependencies"
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
sudo apt install unzip -y
echo "Creating /etc/loki"
mkdir /etc/loki
cd /etc/loki
echo "Fetching Loki version 2.6.1"
curl -O -L "https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/download/v2.6.1/loki-linux-amd64.zip"
# extract the binary
unzip "loki-linux-amd64.zip"
#make sure it is executable
chmod a+x "loki-linux-amd64"
sudo cp loki-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/loki
echo "Adding config.yaml"
sudo tee /etc/loki/config.yaml<<EOF
auth_enabled: false
server:
http_listen_port: 3100
grpc_listen_port: 9096
common:
path_prefix: /data/loki
storage:
filesystem:
chunks_directory: /data/loki/chunks
rules_directory: /data/loki/rules
replication_factor: 1
ring:
instance_addr: 127.0.0.1
kvstore:
store: inmemory
schema_config:
configs:
- from: 2020-10-24
store: boltdb-shipper
object_store: filesystem
schema: v11
index:
prefix: index_
period: 24h
EOF
echo "Creating systemd service"
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/loki.service<<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Loki service
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/loki -config.file /etc/loki/config.yaml
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
echo "Enabling loki on startup, and starting the service"
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable loki.service
sudo systemctl start loki.service
sudo systemctl status loki.service
2. Copy and paste the above script into a file name: loki-install.sh
3. Run the script with below CLI,
sudo sh loki-install.sh
To Configure NGINX proxy
If the deployment is running on a cloud/remote, the following document can be use to configure an nginx proxy.
Ignore Loki configuration in above document as the Loki installation steps are completed using the script.
