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…https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep KitchenOwl - https://github.com/tombursch/kitchen owl Loki - https://github.com/grafana/loki Matrix - Tuwunel ( https://github.com/matrix-construct/tuwunel ) and cinny (…

comment by justsomehuman · 2026-10-08 · in Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

As for Go minimalism can anybody explain why logcli is so big https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases just to download logs from kubernetes?

comment by GoblinSlayer · 2026-02-24 · in Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

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story by tosh · 2026-01-10 · 0 comments

…other such tools are likely better suited for logs. - https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit - https://github.com/grafana/loki

comment by sandstrom · 2025-07-23 · in Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch

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story by linsomniac · 2024-06-03 · 1 comment

…easy to shoot yourself in the foot and rack up huge cloud bills - something we recently hit: https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/8756

comment by blue_cookeh · 2024-04-09 · in Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL

…the job. I raised the needle in haystack problem back in 2018, so it's great to see this landing: https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/91 For anyone that's curious, bloom filters is a clever technique:…

comment by sandstrom · 2024-04-08 · in Loki 3.0 Released

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story by sandstrom · 2024-04-08 · 1 comment

I installed promtail a few weeks back and I ran into this bug, that had been outstanding for months: https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/8663 (e.g. a fix had been written but had not been released): Due to a buffering issue, Loki would…

comment by remram · 2023-04-28 · in I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup

…shuts down, the rest of your containers will freeze up. This has been an issue for almost 3 years. https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/2361

comment by j0ner · 2023-04-28 · in I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup

Loki docs are here: https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/main/docs/sources they are OSS. The last contributor to the docs was an hour ago (at time of writing this comment) and came from a maintainer not employed by Grafana Labs. Looking…

comment by buro9 · 2023-04-28 · in I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup

What's wrong with https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/main/LICENSE ?

comment by corford · 2023-04-11 · in Supabase Logs: open-source logging server

…* Loki/DynamoDB: uhhh, scary: the defaults for hosting in AWS imply more then 500$ per months https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/2801 (so be aware of 'experiments' or quick installations) * EFS (aka NFS): you pay by space... and..…

comment by oriettaxx · 2022-12-05 · in AWS Billing Issue

…external probe and our internal cluster. This was a year or so ago. Original issue about it was: https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/475 (looking at last comments, seems like people are still having issues to easily set it up)

comment by tomalaci · 2022-10-25 · in How to autoscale Grafana Loki queries using KEDA

> Is there an open source version of splunk I can modify? https://github.com/grafana/loki might work for you. It’s not a drop in replacement for Splunk, FWIW.

comment by stevewatson301 · 2022-10-06 · in Splunk IP suit against Cribl

…[3]: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/ [4]: https://github.com/typesense/typesense [5]: https://github.com/grafana/loki [6]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit [7]: https://github.com/zinclabs/zinc [8]:…

comment by francoismassot · 2022-09-22 · in ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go

Clickable link to Loki on GitHub: https://github.com/grafana/loki

comment by senko · 2022-09-14 · in Think Prometheus, but for logs (not metrics). Simple, efficient, fast log store

…[3] https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/loki... [4] https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/643

comment by alexjplant · 2022-08-31 · in Ask HN: IT Security Checklist for Startups?

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story by oriettaxx · 2022-07-27 · 1 comment

…results in: $ go get k8s.io/client-go@v0.19.0 go: downloading k8s.io/client-go v0.19.0 go get: downgraded github.com/grafana/loki v1.5.0 => v1.0.2 go get: downgraded github.com/thanos-io/thanos v0.12.1-0.20200416112106-b391ca115ed8 =>…

comment by jrockway · 2021-06-11 · in Go 1.17 Beta

Promtail/Loki https://github.com/grafana/loki is an alternative to elk, but while it seems more lightweight, it definitely is less featureful. The integration with grafana/prometheus seems nice, but I've only toyed with it, not used in…

comment by Xylakant · 2021-03-02 · in ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis

…can! Of course, this effort has only started. So far, we've contributed to Loki's Fluentd plugin ( https://github.com/grafana/loki/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Ajge... ), and our testing efforts have helped reveal edge cases; see for example…

comment by jgehrcke · 2021-02-02 · in Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog

…cluster, for instance? More broadly, how are you contributing to the upstream projects? [1] https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues?page=7&q=is%3Aissue+i...

comment by tmzt · 2021-02-02 · in Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog

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story by spahl · 2021-02-01 · 114 comments

Promtail is the official log shipper for Loki, but you can also use others. See https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/docs/sources/cli... As for storage, the default is BoltDB for indexes and local file system for the data, but you…

comment by tilolebo · 2020-07-21 · in Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD

…reverse proxy in front of your services, such as NGINX using basic auth or an OAuth2 proxy." https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/docs/operations/... Unfortunately, this means that any process that can write logs can read all logs.…

comment by mleonhard · 2020-05-23 · in AWS services to avoid

…IP-address or User-IDs is a big drawback. It's an open issue though, so may be added in the future: https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/91

comment by sandstrom · 2020-02-24 · in Guide to running Elasticsearch in production

> The reason people use it is that nothing else exists. Maybe https://github.com/grafana/loki , but haven't yet tried it. (Or https://github.com/phaistos-networks/TANK ..?) > I think a better strategy is to store logs in flat files with…

comment by pas · 2020-02-24 · in Guide to running Elasticsearch in production

One project worth keeping an eye on is Loki ( https://github.com/grafana/loki ), which eschews full text search for more basic indexing off of "labels", ie it works a lot like prometheus. There's a writeup on the differences with the EFK…

comment by cpitman · 2020-02-23 · in Guide to running Elasticsearch in production

…provide Tanka-compatible configs for Loki[2]. [1]: https://github.com/grafana/jsonnet-libs [2]: https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/master/production/ksonn...

comment by rfratto · 2020-01-10 · in Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes

…it to systemd's journald and use a custom tool to view them. But maybe a year ago Grafana released https://github.com/grafana/loki and we've been using it on https://oya.to/ ever since. IIRC, the recommended way to integrate it with…

comment by WinonaRyder · 2020-01-04 · in Ask HN: How do you manage logs for your backend services?

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story by reqres · 2019-11-20 · 0 comments

…retention etc.) or in addition to Sonic store the docs somewhere else. There's also Loki - https://github.com/grafana/loki which integrates with Grafana natively which may be the Kibana replacement you're looking for.

comment by snikolaev · 2019-10-31 · in Ask HN: Ligther alternative to ELK for small web application

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story by alexellisuk · 2019-10-27 · 0 comments

You might take a look at https://github.com/grafana/loki if you haven’t seen it yet for logs. It’s still really new but it’s been working for me great.

comment by devthane · 2019-10-13 · in Ask HN: What do you self-host?

https://github.com/grafana/loki is very promising in this space. Dead-easy to run.

comment by PascalW · 2019-08-29 · in Ask HN: How do you handle logging?

…a single box with TBs of memory wouldn't be desirable. For logs without full indexing, Loki ( https://github.com/grafana/loki ) is a recent entry into the space, and it probably a good option to look at. It indexes metadata (labels), so it…

comment by antoncohen · 2019-03-22 · in Redis streams as a pure data structure

https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/pkg/iter/iterato... Looks like the Go regex lib, which isn't super performant, so it could potentially be improved if it ends up being an issue.

comment by ecnahc515 · 2018-12-13 · in Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

…so that we don't forget? [0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/11tjK_lvp1-SVsFZjgOTr1vV3... [1] https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/master/pkg/logproto

comment by gouthamve · 2018-12-13 · in Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

Anyone wondering what the logo looked like before being updated, see here: https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/a5d1c56ce8755136c5dde02...

comment by devmunchies · 2018-12-12 · in Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

Hi, the promtail code is also available in the repo. See: https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/master/cmd/promtail and https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/master/pkg/promtail

comment by gouthamve · 2018-12-12 · in Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

Of course! Everything is opensource, all apache licensed: https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/master/pkg/promtail

comment by netingle · 2018-12-12 · in Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

…really heavily on the metadata for index, this was super important. So we wrote promtail. [0] https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/docs/api.md [1] https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/pkg/logproto/log...

comment by netingle · 2018-12-12 · in Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

Added https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/82

comment by sandGorgon · 2018-12-12 · in Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

…and exports metrics. Thanks for the feedback, and feel free to reach out with any questions. [0] https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/51

comment by netingle · 2018-12-12 · in Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

…distributed grep... There is a lightweight CLI for Loki too, you don't have to use the Grafana UI: https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/docs/logcli.md

comment by netingle · 2018-12-12 · in Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

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