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title: "Configure Promtail for Grafana Enterprise Logs | Grafana Enterprise Logs documentation"
description: "Describes how to configure Promtail to send logs to Grafana Enterprise Logs."
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# Configure Promtail for Grafana Enterprise Logs

[Promtail](/docs/loki/latest/clients/promtail/) is an agent that ships the contents of local logs to Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL).

## Verify that Promtail is running

Because there are several ways to [Install Promtail](/docs/loki/latest/clients/promtail/installation/), there are also several ways to verify that it is running. If you need help at all, submit a [Support Request](/contact?about=support&topic=Verify%20Promtail%20is%20running).

For the following common installation methods, check that Promtail is running:

- binary: To check that the executable is running, use `ps -ef | grep promtail`.
- Docker: To check if a Promtail container is running, run `docker ps`.
- Kubernetes: To check that Promtail pods are running, use the `kubectl get pods | grep promtail` command when you are in the correct namespace.

## Configure Promtail to write to GEL

To configure Promtail to send logs to the **demo** tenant, add a clients block to its configuration.

Example of a minimal configuration:

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```yaml
server:
  http_listen_port: 9080
  grpc_listen_port: 0

positions:
  filename: /tmp/positions.yaml

clients:
  - url: http://enterprise-logs:3100/loki/api/v1/push
    basic_auth:
      username: demo
      password: <token>

scrape_configs:
- job_name: system
  static_configs:
  - targets:
      - localhost
    labels:
      job: varlogs
      __path__: /var/log/*log
```

For more information, refer to [Configuring Promtail](/docs/loki/latest/clients/promtail/configuration/).

## Run this Promtail configuration using Docker

To run this configuration, store the preceding configuration locally in the file `promtail.yaml`, and run the following code:

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```console
$ docker run \
   -d \
   --name=demo-promtail \
   --network=enterprise-logs \
   -v $(pwd)/promtail.yaml:/etc/promtail/config.yml:z \
   grafana/promtail:2.1.0
```

## Verify that Promtail is writing to GEL

From Grafana **Explore**, you can query the data from your GEL cluster via the **Enterprise Logs** data source.