Caution
Grafana Alloy is the new name for our distribution of the OTel collector. Grafana Agent has been deprecated and is in Long-Term Support (LTS) through October 31, 2025. Grafana Agent will reach an End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. Read more about why we recommend migrating to Grafana Alloy.
Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
otelcol.exporter.loki
otelcol.exporter.loki
accepts OTLP-formatted logs from other otelcol
components, converts them to Loki-formatted log entries, and forwards them
to loki
components.
NOTE:
otelcol.exporter.loki
is a custom component unrelated to thelokiexporter
from the OpenTelemetry Collector.Conversion of logs are done according to the OpenTelemetry Logs Data Model specification.
Multiple otelcol.exporter.loki
components can be specified by giving them
different labels.
Usage
otelcol.exporter.loki "LABEL" {
forward_to = [...]
}
Arguments
otelcol.exporter.loki
supports the following arguments:
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
forward_to | list(receiver) | Where to forward converted Loki logs. | yes |
Exported fields
The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components:
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
input | otelcol.Consumer | A value that other components can use to send telemetry data to. |
input
accepts otelcol.Consumer
data for logs. Other telemetry signals are ignored.
Logs sent to input
are converted to Loki-compatible log entries and are
forwarded to the forward_to
argument in sequence.
Component health
otelcol.exporter.loki
is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid
configuration.
Debug information
otelcol.exporter.loki
does not expose any component-specific debug
information.
Example
This example accepts OTLP logs over gRPC, transforms them and forwards
the converted log entries to loki.write
:
otelcol.receiver.otlp "default" {
grpc {}
output {
logs = [otelcol.exporter.loki.default.input]
}
}
otelcol.exporter.loki "default" {
forward_to = [loki.write.local.receiver]
}
loki.write "local" {
endpoint {
url = "loki:3100"
}
}