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labelallow stage

The labelallow stage is an action stage that allows only the provided labels to be included in the label set that is sent to Loki with the log entry.

Schema

labelallow:
  - [<string>]
  ...

Examples

For the given pipeline:

kubernetes_sd_configs:
 - role: pod 
pipeline_stages:
- docker: {}    
- labelallow:
    - kubernetes_pod_name
    - kubernetes_container_name

Given the following incoming labels:

  • kubernetes_pod_name: "loki-pqrs"
  • kubernetes_container_name: "loki"
  • kubernetes_pod_template_hash: "79f5db67b"
  • kubernetes_controller_revision_hash: "774858987d"

Only the below labels would be sent to loki

  • kubernetes_pod_name: "loki-pqrs"
  • kubernetes_container_name: "loki"
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