Loki Installation

Quick Install

# Download Loki
curl -LO https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/latest/download/loki-linux-amd64.zip
unzip loki-linux-amd64.zip
chmod +x loki-linux-amd64
sudo mv loki-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/loki

# Download Promtail
curl -LO https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/latest/download/promtail-linux-amd64.zip
unzip promtail-linux-amd64.zip
chmod +x promtail-linux-amd64
sudo mv promtail-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/promtail

Podman/Docker

# Run Loki
podman run -d --name loki \
    -p {loki-port}:{loki-port} \
    -v ./loki-config.yaml:/etc/loki/config.yaml:ro \
    grafana/loki -config.file=/etc/loki/config.yaml

# Run Promtail
podman run -d --name promtail \
    -v ./promtail-config.yaml:/etc/promtail/config.yaml:ro \
    -v /var/log:/var/log:ro \
    grafana/promtail -config.file=/etc/promtail/config.yaml

TODO: Systemd units, configuration files