Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
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
Clone Loki to
$GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/loki
:git clone https://github.com/grafana/loki $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/loki
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
.