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Installation
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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.
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