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DocumentationGrafana Loki documentationInstallationBuild from source

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:

   bash Copy

   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:

   bash Copy

   make loki

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