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Date Published
Author
Julie Dam
Word count
1209
Language
English
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None

Summary

Grafana Labs' presentation at KubeCon EU by VP Product Tom Wilkie focused on Loki, a log aggregation system designed to work seamlessly with Grafana and inspired by Prometheus. Loki aims to optimize log search, aggregation, and exploration by adopting a data model that uses tags instead of traditional inverted indexes, making it both scalable and cost-effective. This model results in a significantly smaller index size, allowing for efficient operations even in large environments. Loki integrates with existing observability stacks, simplifying the process of correlating metrics and logs, and is designed to be developer-friendly by enabling offline development on a single binary. Grafana Labs also offers a hosted version of Loki using a microservices architecture for cloud-native environments. Future developments include the introduction of LogQL, a query language that will enable the combination of Prometheus and log queries, enhancing Loki's alerting capabilities.