Installation
Note: You can use Grafana Cloud to avoid installing, maintaining, and scaling your own instance of Grafana Loki. The free forever plan includes 50GB of free logs. Create an account to get started.
Installation methods
Instructions for different methods of installing Loki and Promtail.
- Install using Tanka (recommended)
- Microservices deployment with Helm
- Simple scalable deployment with Helm
- Install through Docker or Docker Compose
- Install and run locally
- Install from source
General process
In order to run Loki, you must:
- Download and install both Loki and Promtail.
- Download config files for both programs.
- Start Loki.
- Update the Promtail config file to get your logs into Loki.
- Start Promtail.
Related Loki resources
Getting started with logging and Grafana Loki (Part 3 of 4)
Join this webinar to learn why correlating metrics and logs is critical across the development lifecycle, and how Loki helps reduce logging costs and operations overhead.
Logging with Loki: Essential configuration settings
This webinar focuses on Grafana Loki configuration including agents Promtail and Docker; the Loki server; and Loki storage for popular backends.
Observability with logs & Grafana
Discover how you can utilize, manage, and visualize log events with Grafana and Grafana’s logging application Loki.
