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 |