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Grafana Loki

Log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus

Monitoring & Status ★ 28.7k stars Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system. Unlike other log systems, it indexes only metadata labels rather than full text, making it cost-effective and simple to operate.

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Key features

  • Label-based log indexing
  • LogQL query language
  • Tight Grafana integration
  • Object storage backend

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Cheap to run compared to full-text indexers
  • Familiar Prometheus-style labels

Trade-offs

  • Limited full-text search
  • Requires Grafana for best experience

Grafana Loki replaces

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