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loki.source.docker
loki.source.docker
reads log entries from Docker containers and forwards them
to other loki.*
components. Each component can read from a single Docker
daemon.
Multiple loki.source.docker
components can be specified by giving them
different labels.
Usage
loki.source.docker "LABEL" {
host = HOST
targets = TARGET_LIST
forward_to = RECEIVER_LIST
}
Arguments
The component starts a new reader for each of the given targets
and fans out
log entries to the list of receivers passed in forward_to
.
loki.source.file
supports the following arguments:
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
host | string | Address of the Docker daemon. | yes | |
targets | list(map(string)) | List of containers to read logs from. | yes | |
forward_to | list(LogsReceiver) | List of receivers to send log entries to. | yes | |
labels | map(string) | The default set of labels to apply on entries. | "{}" | no |
relabel_rules | RelabelRules | Relabeling rules to apply on log entries. | "{}" | no |
Blocks
The loki.source.docker
component doesn’t support any inner blocks and is
configured fully through arguments.
Exported fields
loki.source.docker
does not export any fields.
Component health
loki.source.docker
is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid
configuration.
Debug information
loki.source.docker
exposes some debug information per target:
- Whether the target is ready to tail entries.
- The labels associated with the target.
- The most recent time a log line was read.
Debug metrics
loki_source_docker_target_entries_total
(gauge): Total number of successful entries sent to the Docker target.loki_source_docker_target_parsing_errors_total
(gauge): Total number of parsing errors while receiving Docker messages.
Example
This example collects log entries from the files specified in the targets
argument and forwards them to a loki.write
component to be written to Loki.
discovery.docker "linux" {
host = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
}
loki.source.docker "default" {
host = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
targets = discovery.docker.linux.targets
forward_to = [loki.write.local.receiver]
}
loki.write "local" {
endpoint {
url = "loki:3100/api/v1/push"
}
}