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Log monitoring helps maintain the health and security of your systems and applications. By aggregating and analyzing logs, you can gain insights into system behavior, identify errors, and detect security threats. Log monitoring also helps you quickly troubleshoot issues, identify performance bottlenecks, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant open source log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be simple to scale and cost-effective, as it indexes a set of labels for each log stream rather than the contents of the logs. Grafana Labs also offers Grafana Cloud Logs, a fully managed log aggregation system powered by Grafana Loki that allows you to store and query logs from all your applications and infrastructure – without worrying about log volumes, costs, or storage limits.

Learn more about log monitoring and the solutions we offer below.

Resources

Log monitoring blog posts

Open source log monitoring: The concise guide to Grafana Loki
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Open source log monitoring: The concise guide to Grafana Loki
A concise guide to Grafana Loki, our open source log aggregation tool, highlighting its features and benefits for users.
Retain logs longer without breaking the bank: Introducing Grafana Cloud Logs Export
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Retain logs longer without breaking the bank: Introducing Grafana Cloud Logs Export
Whether it's for compliance purposes or to analyze past incidents, use Grafana Cloud Logs Exporter to transfer your logs — for free! — to your own cloud-based object store for long-term archival storage.
Find your logs data with Explore Logs: No LogQL required!
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Find your logs data with Explore Logs: No LogQL required!
Learn all about Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs in Grafana 11 and Loki 3.0 without writing LogQL.

More blog posts

The essential config settings you should use so you won’t drop logs in Loki Manage log volumes, metrics cardinality, monthly bills: Explore Grafana Cloud cost management tools Five tricks for logging at scale in a Kubernetes environment with Grafana Loki How I fell in love with logs thanks to Grafana Loki

Log monitoring webinars

Getting started with Grafana and Loki in under 4 minutes
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Getting started with Grafana and Loki in under 4 minutes
Introducing Loki by Grafana, a new logging backend, optimized for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes. Loki is a great match with Grafana for searching, visualizing and exploring your logs natively.
Introduction to Loki: Like Prometheus, but for Logs
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Introduction to Loki: Like Prometheus, but for Logs
Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.
Essential Grafana Loki configuration settings
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Essential Grafana Loki configuration settings
This webinar focuses on Grafana Loki configuration including agents Promtail and Docker; the Loki server; and Loki storage for popular backends.

More webinars

Scaling and securing your logs with Grafana Loki Getting started with your metrics, logs, and traces in Grafana Cloud

Products related to log monitoring

Grafana Cloud Logs
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Grafana Cloud Logs
Grafana Cloud Logs is the fully managed log aggregation system that allows you to store and query logs from all your applications and infrastructure – without worrying about log volumes, costs, or storage limits.
Grafana Enterprise Logs
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Grafana Enterprise Logs
Grafana Enterprise Logs offers a unique approach to log indexing, storage and administration control that runs securely at scale and is supported by Grafana.

Log monitoring documentation

Grafana Loki Loki overview Get started with Grafana Loki Setup Loki Visualize log data Send Logs to Grafana Cloud Collect logs with Grafana Agent Collect logs with Promtail Grafana Enterprise Logs Configure Grafana Enterprise Logs Set up a Grafana Enterprise Logs cluster

Log monitoring success stories

From ELK to Grafana Loki: How eCommerce leader Blinkit modernized their logging stack with Grafana Cloud
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From ELK to Grafana Loki: How eCommerce leader Blinkit modernized their logging stack with Grafana Cloud
India's leading grocery-and-essentials delivery company now has over 200 engineers turning to Grafana Cloud to help them on a daily basis.
How Houzz improved observability, MTTR, and MTTI using Grafana Loki and Grafana Tempo
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How Houzz improved observability, MTTR, and MTTI using Grafana Loki and Grafana Tempo
Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design, increases uptime and stability of its platforms with Grafana Loki and Grafana Tempo
Grafana Cloud Logs: Lithic's gateway to better observability
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Grafana Cloud Logs: Lithic's gateway to better observability
In Lithic’s quest for zero downtime, see why they turned to Grafana Cloud Logs to power their modern observability stack.
Log management with Grafana Cloud: 4 observability experts share their move from OSS to Grafana Cloud Logs
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Log management with Grafana Cloud: 4 observability experts share their move from OSS to Grafana Cloud Logs
Debating between OSS vs. a full-managed solution for logging? Here's why observability pros ultimately decided on Grafana Cloud
Inside TeleTracking's journey to build a better observability platform with Grafana Cloud
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Inside TeleTracking's journey to build a better observability platform with Grafana Cloud
See how TeleTracking combined Prometheus and Grafana Cloud to give its users greater visibility into their services, lower overhead, and serve as key feedback mechanisms for an ever-evolving developer experience.
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