This directory contains the base manifests for deploying Grafana Loki, a horizontally-scalable, highly-available log aggregation system designed for cloud-native environments. It is designed to be consumed by cluster repositories as a remote base, allowing each cluster to apply custom overrides as needed.
About Grafana Loki:
- Provides a cost-effective log aggregation solution optimized for storing and querying logs from Kubernetes clusters and applications.
- Deployed in Simple Scalable mode with separate read and write paths for high availability and horizontal scaling.
- Integrates natively with OpenTelemetry for log collection using OTLP protocol, eliminating the need for additional log shippers.
- Indexes only metadata (labels) rather than full-text, resulting in significantly lower storage costs compared to traditional solutions.
- Queries logs using LogQL, a query language similar to PromQL, enabling powerful filtering and aggregation.
- Supports multi-tenancy, retention policies, and compaction for efficient long-term log storage.
- Automatically integrates with Grafana for unified visualization of logs alongside metrics and traces.
- Commonly used for troubleshooting application issues, audit logging, security analysis, and operational insights.