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Build from source

Clone the Grafana Loki repository and use the provided Makefile to build Loki from source.

Prerequisites

  • Go, version 1.14 or later; set your $GOPATH environment variable
  • make
  • Docker (for updating protobuf and yacc files)

Build locally

  1. Clone Loki to $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/loki:

    git clone https://github.com/grafana/loki $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/loki

  2. With a current working directory of $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/loki:

    make loki

The built executable will be in $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/loki/cmd/loki/loki.

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