Promtail

Overview

Homepage:	https://grafana.com/oss/loki/
Changelog:	https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases
Documentation:	https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/promtail/
Get version:	promtail –version
OMD default:	disabled

Promtail is an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Grafana Loki instance. It is usually deployed to every machine that runs applications which need to be monitored. OMD shipps with scrape configs for Apache, mod-gearman, Grafana, InfluxDB, Livestatus, Loki, Naemon, OMD and Thruk Logfiles.

 

Directory Layout

Config File:	<site>/etc/loki/promtail.yaml
Scrape-Config Directory:	<site>/etc/loki/promtail.d
Logfiles:	<site>/var/log/promtail.log

 

OMD Options & Vars

Option	Value	Description
LOKI_PROMTAIL	on off	Enable Promtail
LOKI_PORT	3101	TCP Port to listen on