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Add a new Loki data source in Grafana Cloud and give it a descriptive name.

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Add the Loki data source

Grafana provides built-in support for Loki. In this milestone, you navigate to Connections, search for Loki, and give your new data source a descriptive name.

To add the Loki data source, complete the following steps:

  1. In the navigation menu, click Connections > Data sources.

  2. Click Add new data source.

  3. In the Filter by name or type field, enter Loki.

  4. From the search results, click Loki.

  5. At the top of the page, next to the data source name, click the edit (pencil) icon and enter a descriptive name for your Loki data source.

    For example, enter Production Loki.

    Did you know? The name of the data source is displayed on dashboard panels and in the data source picker in Explore, so it’s important to choose a meaningful name.

In the next milestone, you configure the connection URL for your Loki backend.

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