Plugins 〉Grafana Enterprise Logs
Grafana Enterprise Logs
Grafana Enterprise Logs
Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL) is a commercial offering based on the open-source project Loki. The commercial offering allows you to deploy a highly-scalable, simple, and reliable GEL cluster in your own data center. The plugin gives you an easy way to manage your logs cluster.
Features
- Tenant management: Easily scale up to hundreds of GEL tenants on a single cluster.
- Access policies and tokens: Fully control and visualise who has access to what.
Configuration
After the plugin has been installed into your Grafana instance, enable and initialize it:
- Navigate to Configuration > Plugins within your Grafana instance.
- Select the Grafana Enterprise Logs app from the list.
- Click the Enable plugin button on the plugin page to enable the plugin.
- Fill out the API settings section with the GEL bootstrap token and a URL where the cluster can be accessed.
- Start using the GEL plugin.
Enterprise plugins, along with support and assistance from the core team behind Grafana, are available with Grafana Enterprise.
Installing Grafana Enterprise Logs on Grafana Cloud:
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.
Installing on a local Grafana:
For local instances, plugins are installed and updated via a simple CLI command. Plugins are not updated automatically, however you will be notified when updates are available right within your Grafana.
1. Install the Application
Use the grafana-cli tool to install Grafana Enterprise Logs from the commandline:
grafana-cli plugins install The plugin will be installed into your grafana plugins directory; the default is /var/lib/grafana/plugins. More information on the cli tool.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file for your architecture below and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
2. Enable it
Next, log into your Grafana instance. Navigate to the Plugins section, found in your Grafana main menu.
Click the Apps tabs in the Plugins section and select the newly installed app.
To enable the app, click the Config tab. Follow the instructions provided with the application and click Enable. The app and any new UI pages are now accessible from within the main menu, as designed by the app creator.
If dashboards have been included with the application, they will attempt to be automatically installed. To view the dashboards, re-import or delete individual dashboards, click the Dashboards tab within the app page.
Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
v2.3.0 -- November 12 2021
- [FEATURE] - Added ability to edit access policies
- [FIX] - Ensure
__system__access policy does not appear - [FIX] - Change of terminology to "Tenants" (previously was "Instances")
- [FIX] - Fixed issue related to saving and updating instance limits (If-Match, ETag stability)
v2.2.0 -- August 19 2021
- [ENHANCEMENT] - Show more detailed error messages for not correctly formatted access-tokens on the plugin config page
- [ENHANCEMENT] - Update self-monitoring dashboards, introduce a new "Overview Dashboard"
v2.1.0 -- August 13 2021
- [FEATURE] - Add a simple way to automatically generate datasources when creating a new logs:read token
- [FEATURE] - Make it possible to create wildcard access-policies that are applied to all instances in a cluster
- [FIX] - Hide the
__system__instance when self-monitoring is not available
v2.0.1 -- June 15 2021
- [FIX] - Make the modals scrollable when creating a new instance, access-policy or token (introduced in v2.0.0)
v2.0.0 -- June 14 2021
- [FEATURE] - Make the plugin compatible with Grafana 8 (Breaking change! - this version doesn't work with earlier versions of Grafana anymore)
v1.1.0 -- June 14 2021
- [FIX] - Make "admin", "alerts:read" and "alerts:write" scopes available for new access policies
- [FEATURE] - Update the look of the access policies list items
- [FEATURE] - Enable LBAC (Label Based Access Control) in the plugin
v1.0.1 -- March 17 2021
- [FIX] - Show hints (and disable the submit) for incorrectly formatted tokens on the app config page
- [FIX] - Make backspaces work in the token input field
v1.0.0
Initial release with supporting the basic features of Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL).
