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Documentation Grafana Agent Configure Grafana Agent logs_config

logs_config

The logs_config block configures how the Agent collects logs and sends them to a Loki push API endpoint. logs_config is identical to how Promtail is configured, except deprecated fields have been removed and the server_config is not supported.

Refer to the Promtail documentation for the supported values for these fields.

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# Directory to store Loki Promtail positions files in. Positions files are
# required to read logs, and are used to store the last read offset of log
# sources. The positions files will be stored in
# <positions_directory>/<logs_instance_config.name>.yml.
#
# Optional only if every config has a positions.filename manually provided.
#
# This directory will be automatically created if it doesn't exist.
[positions_directory: <string>]

# Loki Promtail instances to run for log collection.
configs:
  - [<logs_instance_config>]

logs_instance_config

The logs_instance_config block is an individual instance of Promtail with its own set of scrape rules and where to forward logs. It is identical to how Promtail is configured, except deprecated fields have been removed and the server_config block is not supported.

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# Name of this config. Required, and must be unique across all Loki configs.
# The name of the config will be the value of a logs_config label for all
# Loki Promtail metrics.
name: <string>

clients:
  - [<promtail.client_config>]

# Optional configuration for where to store the positions files. If
# positions.filename is left empty, the file will be stored in
# <logs_config.positions_directory>/<logs_instance_config.name>.yml.
#
# The directory of the positions file will automatically be created on start up
# if it doesn't already exist..
[positions: <promtail.position_config>]

scrape_configs:
  - [<promtail.scrape_config>]

[target_config: <promtail.target_config>]

Note: More information on the following types can be found on the documentation for Promtail:

• promtail.client_config
• promtail.scrape_config
• promtail.target_config

Note: Backticks in values are not supported.

Note: Because of how YAML treats backslashes in double-quoted strings, all backslashes in a regex expression must be escaped when using double quotes. But because of double processing, in Grafana Agent config file you must use quadruple backslash (\\\\) construction to add backslashes into regular expressions, here is example for name=(\w+)\s regex:

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  selector: '{app="my-app"} |~ "name=(\\\\w+)\\\\s"'

Using single or double backslash construction produces the error:

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failed to make file target manager: invalid match stage config: invalid selector syntax for match stage: parse error at line 1, col 40: literal not terminated

Using backticks produces the error:

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invalid match stage config: invalid selector syntax for match stage: parse error at line 1, col 51: syntax error: unexpected IDENTIFIER, expecting STRING"