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Grafana Agent Cookbook Dynamic Configuration Logs and Traces
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04 Logs and Traces

Logs and Traces can also be templated. This is built ontop of the previous examples.

docker run -v ${PWD}/:/etc/grafana grafana/agentctl:latest template-parse file:///etc/grafana/04_config.yml

Dynamic Configuration

config.yml

Tells the Grafana Agent where to load files from.

Logs

Logs are loaded from a template matching logs-*.yml. There can ONLY be 1 template loaded

logs-1.yml

yaml 
configs:
  - name: test_logs
    positions:
      filename: /tmp/positions.yaml
    scrape_configs:
      - job_name: test
        pipeline_stages:
          - regex:
            source: filename
            expression: '\\temp\\Logs\\(?P<log_app>.+?)\\'

traces.yml

yaml 
configs:
  - name: test_traces
    automatic_logging:
      backend: stdout
      loki_name: default
      spans: true

Final

final.yml