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Set up a Grafana Enterprise Logs instance

Enterprise

Set up a Grafana Enterprise Logs instance

Create a Grafana Enterprise Logs instance:

Navigate to Grafana Enterprise Logs > Instances.
Click on Create new instance.
Choose a name for your instance. For demonstration purposes, use the name demo.
Select the cluster.
Click Create instance.

Create a data source access policy and token

Create an access policy and a token, that are used by Grafana itself to access the logs in the instance named demo:

Navigate to Grafana Enterprise Logs > Access policies.
Click Create new access policy.
Choose a name for the policy. For demonstration purposes, use demo-grafana.
Select the instance demo.
Enable the scope read.
Click on Create.
From the newly created access policy, click + Add token.
Name the token demo-grafana, and click on Create.
In the next window, copy the token.

Next, use this access policy and token to create a new data source in Grafana:

Navigate to Configuration > Data Sources.
Click on Add new data source.
Choose a name for this data source. For demonstration purposes, use Enterprise Logs.
Select Loki.
Set the URL to http://<GEL host>:3100.
Enable Basic Auth and use User demo and as Password the token from your clipboard.
Click Save & Test.

Create a Promtail access policy and token

To be able to have some metrics inside our cluster, create an access policy so that a Promtail instance can write logs into the instance demo:

Navigate to Grafana Enterprise Logs > Access policies.
Click on Create new access policy.
Choose a name for the policy. For demonstration purposes, use demo-promtail.
Select the instance demo.
Enable the scope write.
Click on Create.
From the newly created access policy, click on + Add token.
We call the token demo-promtail again and click on Create.
In the next window, copy the token.